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Node vs Sac - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between node and sac

is that node is a knot, knob, protuberance or swelling while sac is a bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.

As an abbreviation NODE

is New Oxford Dictionary of English

As a verb sac is

(sacrifice v) To sacrifice.

As an acronym SAC is

acronym of :w:senior aircraftman|senior aircraftman|lang=en.

As a proper noun Sac is

an alternative form of Sauk|lang=en.

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

    Related terms

    * knot * nodal * noded * nodule

    Synonyms

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

    See also

    * neurode

    Anagrams

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    sac

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sac.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bag or pouch inside a plant or animal that typically contains a fluid.
    • Derived terms
    * vocal sac

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of sacrifice.

    Verb

  • (senseid)(transitive, informal, games) To sacrifice.
    • Kasparov sacked his queen early on in the game to gain a positional advantage against Kramnik.
    I kept saccing monsters at the altar until I was rewarded with a new weapon.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (senseid)(transitive, informal, games) A sacrifice.
    • Kasparov's queen sac early in the game gained him a positional advantage against Kramnik.

    Etymology 3

    See sake, soc.

    Noun

  • (UK, legal, obsolete) The privilege, formerly enjoyed by the lord of a manor, of holding courts, trying causes, and imposing fines.
    • (Cowell)

    Anagrams

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