NODE

noun a swelling.

2. node ·noun the knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.

3. node ·noun a knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

4. node ·noun the joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted.

5. node ·noun the point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. ·see crunode, and acnode.

6. node ·noun the point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions;

— called also knot.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.