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node | zip |

As an abbreviation node

is .

As a noun zip is

a common file format for data compression.

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

    * ----

    zip

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatopoeic.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
  • Energy; vigor; vim.
  • (British, NZ) A zip fastener.
  • Zero; nothing.
  • A trip on a zipline.
  • (computing, informal) A zip file.
    • Synonyms
    * (sound) whizz, zing * (fastener) slide fastener, zip fastener, zipper (chiefly US )

    Interjection

    (en-interj)!
  • The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
    • Synonyms
    * whee!, whizz!, zing!

    Verb

  • To close with a zip fastener.
  • (figuratively) To close as if with a zip fastener.
    • zip one's lip
  • (computing) To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
  • (followed by a preposition ) To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
    • The bullet zipped through the air.
  • (colloquial) (followed by a preposition ) To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
    • Zip down to the shops for some milk.
  • To make (something) move quickly
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 27 , author=Mike Henson , title=Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Tottenham also initially struggled to create genuine goal-scoring opportunities, with Bale, Luka Modric and Rafael van der Vaart zipping passes around to little effect.}}
  • To travel on a zipline.
    • Derived terms
    () * unzip * zip- * zip down * Zip drive * zip file * zip-front * zip it * zip one's lip * zip up * zip wire, zip-wire
    Synonyms
    * (close with a zip fastener) zip up

    Etymology 2

    From zip code

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) Shortened form of ZIP code, the US postal code.
  • (US) Any postal code, for any country.
    • See also
    * postcode (UK ) * postal code (UK )