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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=probably before 1425|origins=ine-pro *ned-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /nəʊd/ ''(UK)''; /noʊd/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|nōdus|t=knot]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(NODE 1998) perhaps related to [[m|la|nectō|t=to bind]],^(Hoad 1986) from [[ine-pro|*ned-|t=to bind, tie]] (see [[net]]).^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A knot or lump in the flesh: probably before 1425, in a translation of Chauliac's ''Grande Chirurgie'', in Barnhart;^(Barnhart 1988) the early 15th century in Etymonline, which notes an earlier borrowing of the Latin form ''nodus'' about 1400.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A complication or entanglement is from 1572,^(OED 1989)^(Hoad 1986) and a knob on a root or branch from 1582.^(OED 1989) A hard swelling on a body part is from 1610.^(OED 1989) The sense of a point of intersection began in astronomy, of a planet's orbit crossing the ecliptic, in 1665.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) The point on a stem where leaves grow is from 1835,^(OED 1989) and a small mass of tissue, as a lymph node, from 1885.^(OED 1989) Nodal is from 1831, in Faraday.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * probably before 1425 – a lump in the flesh.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1572 – a complication.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1665 – a node of an orbit.^(OED 1989)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1835 – a node of a stem.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1885 – a node of tissue.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A knot, knob or swelling.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(botany)'' The point on a stem where a leaf or branch grows.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(anatomy)'' A small mass of tissue, as a [[lymph node]].^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

+ # A point where lines or paths meet or branch, as in a network.^(AHD)

+ # ''(physics)'' A point of zero or minimum [[amplitude]] in a [[standing wave]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(astronomy)'' Either of the points where an orbit crosses the [[ecliptic]].^(OED 1989)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[internode]]

+ * [[nodical]]

+ * [[antinode]]

+ * [[ascending node]]

+ * [[AV node]]

+ * [[descending node]]

+ * [[lymph node]]

+ * [[node of Ranvier]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[knot]]

+ * [[nodal]]

+ * [[nodule]]

+ * [[nodus]]

+ * [[net]]

+ * [[noose]]

+ * [[denouement]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}