Node vs. Vertex

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

Vertexnoun

The highest point of something.

Vertexnoun

(anatomy) The highest surface on the skull.

Vertexnoun

(geometry) The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting of edges) and higher order polytopes.

Vertexnoun

(mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.

Vertexnoun

(graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.

Vertexnoun

(computer graphics) A point in 3D space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.

Vertexnoun

(optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.

Vertexnoun

An interaction point.

Vertexnoun

(astrology) The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal chart.

Vertexnoun

A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.

Vertexnoun

The top, or crown, of the head.

Vertexnoun

The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead.

Vertexnoun

The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base.

Vertexnoun

the point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure

Vertexnoun

the highest point (of something);

Vertexnoun

the highest point; the top or apex.

Vertexnoun

the crown of the head.

Vertexnoun

each angular point of a polygon, polyhedron, or other figure.

Vertexnoun

a meeting point of two lines that form an angle.

Vertexnoun

the point at which an axis meets a curve or surface.