node
/nəʊd/US/noʊd/
node noun: a knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
Noun
node (plural nodes)
- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- 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 ☋.
- A leaf node.
- A computer or other device attached to a network.
- The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions.
- Synonyms:
- knot
- The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
- A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- 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.
- A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- 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, its place in the ecliptic, etc.
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- The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
- A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e. the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
- A point in a parse tree that can be assigned a syntactic category label.
- A point in a cladogram from which two clades branch, representing the presumed ancestor.
Proper noun capitalized: NODE
NODE
- Acronym of New Oxford Dictionary of English.
node meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
node in Hindi
- नोड
node in Tamil
- முனை
node in Marathi
- नोड
node in Urdu
- نوڈ
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- node in Bengali
- নোড
- node in Telugu
- నోడ్
- node in Malayalam
- നോഡ്
- node in Kannada
- ನೋಡ್, ನೊಡ್
- node in Punjabi
- ਨੋਡ, ਨੋੱਡ, ਨੌਡ
- node in Gujarati
- નોડ, નોડે
- node in Odia
- ନୋଡ୍, ନୋଡ, ନୋଡ଼
- node in Nepali
- नोड, नोड्
- node in Tagalog
- buko
- node in Arabic
- عُقْدَة ʕuqda
- node in Malay
- buku
- node in Indonesian
- nodus, simpul
- node in Thai
- บัพ bàp
- node in Vietnamese
- gióng
Examples of node in a sentence
- The child node then stores the actual data of the parent node.
- The algorithm then recurses on the children of the current tree node.
- The node had established communication with the network, but had as yet sent no data.
Synonyms of node
Forms of node
| plural | nodes |
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Origin of node
From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot, knout, and nodus.
Words formed from node
- acnode
- anti-node
- antinode
- ascending node
- AV node
- binode
- child node
- Cloquet's node
- crunode
- descending node
- eigennode
- end-node
- exit node
- hardware node
- Heberden's node
- heminode
- hypernode
- internode
- intranode
- leaf node
- lymphatic node
- lymph node
- lymphnode
- lymphoneogenesis
- lymphonode
- lymphonodectomy
- macronode
- metanode
- multinode
- nodeless
- nodelike
- nodelist
- node of Ranvier
- node of Rouvière
- nodeset
- nodesize
- node-voltage analysis
- nodewise
- nodical
- nodiform
- nodopathy
- oscnode
- Osler node
- paranode
- Ranvier's node
- Rosenmüller's node
- SA node
- S-A node
- sinoatrial node
- sinus node
- stem node
- subnode
- supernode
- tacnode
- tidal node
- Virchow's node
Phrases with node
Words that rhyme with node
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- bode
- choad
- corrode
- encode
- goad
- toad
- antipode
- decode
- episode
- erode
- forebode
- hoed
- incommode
- overrode
- recode
- rode
- strode
- throwed
- unicode
- woad
- 'splode
- bestowed
- cestode
- chode
- crowed
- discommode
- glode
- Gold Code
- grode
- growed
- hode
- I'll be blowed
- lowed
- mowed
- nuclear code
- ode
- owed
- shode
- side road
- Spanish Road
- stroad
- subnode
- tode
- toed
- towed
- Union Road
- uudecode
- uuencode
Questions about node
- What does node mean?
- Node means a knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- What is node in Hindi?
- Node in Hindi is नोड. See Node meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is node?
- Node can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce node?
- Node is pronounced /nəʊd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of node?
- The plural of node is nodes.
Words near node in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: node (page history and authors); NODE (page history and authors); node (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); node (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); node (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); node (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); node (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); node (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); node (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); node (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); node (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); node (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); node (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); node (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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