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node | photo |

As an abbreviation node

is .

As a noun photo is

.

node

English

(wikipedia node)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * acnode * crunode * hardware node * leaf-node * tacnode

    Synonyms

    * (computer networking) host * (graph theory) vertex

    See also

    * neurode

    Anagrams

    * ----

    photo

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Photograph.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take a photograph.
  • * [1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=5kjheskJwVAC&pg=PA465&lpg=PA465&sig=_CY8N5ZLStxnOIlf_CNHhhBEPjA]
  • What fun to be photoed together, / What luck for a break so opportune. / Oh, what a lark / To be posed in the park / Underneath the adolescent crescent of the moon.
  • * 1998, Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=vQ7DKhq0ZckC&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&sig=hrMAoHDI9vAnq4RQwgFro_Lp24M]
  • He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.
  • * 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=2nFEV20sE1AC&pg=PA219&lpg=PA219&sig=8MxWTUwSXHcfah6pEaAnVLYaiL4]
  • Always photoing exits. What are all these ways out but rehearsals for his own?

    See also

    * photo- * photosensitive * photosynthesis, photosynthesize * photogenic * photocell * photo finish * photo opportunity * snapshot ----