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- Node - n. - A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.
- Node - 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.
- Node - n. - The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.
- Node - 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.
- Node - n. - The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
- Node - n. - The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
- Node - n. - The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
- Node - 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.
- Node - 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.
- Node - n. - A swelling.
- Nodosity - n. - The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.
- Joint - n. - A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation.
- Nodical - a. - Of or pertaining to the nodes; from a node to the same node again; as, the nodical revolutions of the moon.
- Dracontic - a. - Belonging to that space of time in which the moon performs one revolution, from ascending node to ascending node. See Dragon's head, under Dragon.
- Interfoliaceous - a. - At the same node with opposite or whorled leaves, but occupying a position between their places of attachment.
- Oppositifolious - a. - Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.