A Quick and Simple Dictionary

node

1. Abbreviation.  New Oxford Dictionary of English.
2. Noun.  A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
3. Noun.  (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from S to N and N to S. The respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
4. Noun.  (botany) A stem node.
5. Noun.  (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
6. Noun.  (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
7. Noun.  (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
8. Noun.  (music) One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.
9. Noun.  A swelling.
10. Noun.  (graph theory) A vertex of a graph.
11. Noun.  (context, computing theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
12. Noun.  (context, computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
13. Noun.  (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
14. Noun.  (context, technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.