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nodes

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A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.

Examples :

"The old tree's roots were gnarled and covered in nodes where smaller roots branched out. "

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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 South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.

Examples :

"Astronomers carefully track the points where a planet's orbit crosses the Earth's orbital plane, which are called nodes. "

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Examples :

"In a family tree diagram, the names at the very bottom, with no children listed under them, are leaf nodes. "

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A computer or other device attached to a network.

Examples :

"The office network has fifty nodes, including computers, printers, and scanners. "

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The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.

Examples :

""At the circus tent's peak, the tightrope walker carefully adjusted the ropes where several stressed cables converged at important nodes supporting the entire structure." "

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The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.

Examples :

"The figure-eight shape has a single point where the curve crosses itself, creating a pair of nodes. "

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A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.

Examples :

"The origami crane had distinct nodes where the paper sharply folded, creating multiple possible tangent planes at each of those points. "

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A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.

Examples :

""In our school's computer network, each computer and printer acts as one of the many nodes, allowing us to share files and resources." "

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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.

Examples :

"The doctor examined the patient's swollen fingers, feeling for any nodes that might indicate rheumatoid arthritis. "

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A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.

Examples :

"On the guitar string, the nodes were the points that barely moved at all when the string vibrated. "

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The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.

Examples :

"The play's nodes of conflict intensified as the two main characters revealed their hidden motives, leaving the audience on the edge of their seats. "

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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.

Examples :

"The sundial's design carefully positioned the nodes so that sunlight passing through them accurately marked the hours on the dial. "

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The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

Examples :

"In a KWIC index of the book, the word "love" appeared as nodes surrounded by various phrases, showing all the contexts where "love" was used. "

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