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.

Noun

(en noun)

A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.

A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

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A part of a document.

An act or instance of cutting.

A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).

# (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.

(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.

(sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.

(senseid) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.

An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.

(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers lead by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

(category theory) A right inverse.

(NZ) A piece of residential land usually a quarter of an acre in size; a plot.

(label) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.