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The Meaning of node

  • (n.) A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.
  • (n.) One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary.
  • (n.) The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.
  • (n.) A hole in the gnomon of a dial, 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.
  • (n.) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
  • (n.) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
  • (n.) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.
  • (n.) A swelling.

Synonyms

lymph gland , thickening , lymph node , leaf node , client , guest , knob , inspissation , pommel , thickener , boss , customer , invitee

Antonyms

antinode

Homophones

knode , knowed

Rhymes

abode , anode , bestowed , bestrode , blowed , boatload , bode , bowed , brode , busload , carload , caseload , cathode , coad , code , coed , commode , corrode , crossroad , crowed , decode , diode , elbowed , encode , episode , erode , explode , flowed , forebode , goad , goedde , goede , grode , implode , inroad , kanode , knode , knowed , load , lode , m-code , methode , microcode , moad , mode , mowed , nematode , ode , out-mode , outmode , overflowed , overload , overrode , owed , payload , railroad , reload , rhoad , rhode , road , rode , roed , rohde , shipload , shoad , showed , shrode , slowed , snowed , sowed , spode , stowed , strode , thode , toad , towed , truckload , unbowed , unload , workload