Node

·noun A Swelling.

II. Node ·noun The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.

III. Node ·noun A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

IV. Node ·noun The joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.

V. Node ·noun The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. ·see Crunode, and Acnode.

VI. Node ·noun The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions;

— called also knot.

VII. Node ·noun One of the fixed points of a sonorous string, when it vibrates by aliquot parts, and produces the harmonic tones; nodal line or point.

VIII. Node ·noun 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.

IX. Node ·noun 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.

X. Node ·noun 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.