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Knot (from Old High German knoto "knot-shaped thickening") stands for:
- Knots (tying) , intertwining of threads, ribbons, ropes and the like
- Topknot , early bun , a hairstyle
- Junction (traffic) , meeting of traffic routes and flows
- Knot (unit) , measure of speed in sea and aviation (1.852 km / h)
- Node (hypertext) , element of linking knowledge units
- Knot (sea sport) , discipline of sea sport all-around
- Knot (craftsman) , former name for craftsmen in Stettin and Königsberg
geographically:
- Knot (Westerwald) , elevation in the Westerwald
- Knot (Carinthia) , mountain of the Kreuzeck group
- Knot (Silvretta) , summit in the Eastern Alps
Science, technology:
- Knots (botany) , attachment points of the leaves on the shoot axes
- Node (chemistry) , change of sign of a wave function (zero crossing)
- Node (statics) , connection point of bars or elements
- Knot (astronomy) , intersection of the orbit of a celestial body with a reference plane
- Connection of several survey lines in geodesy, see node network
- Places with current branching in electrical circuits, see Kirchhoff's rules
- Node, places a riveted connection, see rivet # constructions
- Network node in a telecommunications network, see network element
- Nodes of vibration in acoustic and other waves, see standing wave
mathematically:
- Object of the topology, see knot theory
- Knots (graph theory) , the corners of a graph
- stable fixed point, see fixed point (mathematics) # fixed points in numerics
- Start and end points of individual path segments in a vector graphic
- Node (UML) , physical runtime object in the Unified Modeling Language
- Representations of program elements, see Document Object Model #Types of nodes
medical:
- Tumor , benign or malignant neoplasm
- Tophus , in medicine an inflammatory nodule formation
- Part of the cardiac conduction system, see Sinus Nodes and Atrioventricular Nodes
- Lymph nodes , part of the lymphatic system
- circumscribed dilation of a blood vessel, see hemorrhoids
- surgical technique, see surgeon's knot
- Ganglion (nervous system) , nerve nodes, accumulation of nerve cell bodies
- Nodus in dermatology, see efflorescence # Primary lesions
- autonomous cells in the thyroid, see thyroid nodules
See also:
- List of knots (rope and tying techniques)
- Gordian knot (legendary rope)
- Node (disambiguation)
Wiktionary: nodes - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
