Node vs. Internode

Nodenoun

A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.

Nodenoun

(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 South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.

Nodenoun

(botany) A leaf node.

Nodenoun

(networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.

Nodenoun

(engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.

Nodenoun

(geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.

Nodenoun

(geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.

Nodenoun

(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.

Nodenoun

(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.

Nodenoun

(physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.

Nodenoun

(rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.

Nodenoun

(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.

Nodenoun

(computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

Nodenoun

A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

Nodenoun

One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary.

Nodenoun

A special point in a graph or diagram which is attached to other points by links. It is often labeled and represented graphically as a box or circle. A node may represent any object which is related to other objects in a conceptual structure that can be represented as a graph, the relations being represented as links between the nodes.

Nodenoun

A small mass of tissue differing from other tissue in its immediate vicinity; as, a lymph node.

Nodenoun

a connecting point at which several lines come together

Nodenoun

any thickened enlargement

Nodenoun

(physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system

Nodenoun

(astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane

Nodenoun

the source of lymph and lymphocytes

Nodenoun

any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part

Nodenoun

(computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network

Internodeadjective

Between nodes.

Internodenoun

(botany) A section of stem between two stem nodes.

Internodenoun

(technical) Whatever lies between two nodes.

Internodenoun

The space between two nodes or points of the stem from which the leaves properly arise.

Internodenoun

A part between two joints; a segment; specifically, one of the phalanges.

Internodenoun

a segment of a stem between two nodes