Node vs Console - What's the difference?
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A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
(astronomy) 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 S to N and N to S. The respective symbols are .
(botany) A stem node.
(computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
(engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; -- called also knot.
(geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See Crunode, and Acnode.
(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
(medicine) 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.
(physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
(rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a piece.
(technical) 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, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
A cabinet designed to stand on the floor, especially one that houses home entertainment equipment, such as a TV or stereo system.
A cabinet that controls, instruments, and displays are mounted upon.
The keyboard and screen of a computer or other electronic device.
A storage tray or container mounted between the seats of an automobile.
(video games) A device dedicated to playing video games, set apart from
(architecture) An ornamental member jutting out of a wall to carry a superincumbent weight.
To comfort (someone) in a time of grief, disappointment, etc.
* P. Henry
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
As an abbreviation node
is .As a verb console is
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English
(wikipedia node)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* acnode * crunode * hardware node * leaf-node * tacnodeSynonyms
* (computer networking) host * (graph theory) vertexSee also
* neurodeAnagrams
* ----console
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)arcade cabinetsby its ability to change games.
Derived terms
* console tableSee also
* corbelEtymology 2
From (etyl)Verb
(consol)- I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has been attacked in vain by all the wits and philosophers, and its triumph has been complete.
- "Do you remember, my friend, that I went to Tostes once when you had just lost your first deceased? I consoled you at that time. I thought of something to say then, but now—" Then, with a loud groan that shook his whole chest, "Ah! this is the end for me, do you see! I saw my wife go, then my son, and now to-day it's my daughter."