as in swellings
a small rounded mass of swollen tissue
the doctor examined the node on my knee before deciding it was the result of arthritis
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Recent Examples of nodes
This at-home massager, complete with eight kneading massage nodes and heat, is a real treat at the end of a long day.
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Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 9 Apr. 2025
Removing the leaves exposes the leaf nodes.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2025
Be careful not to disturb the leaf nodes.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2025
New roots will form at the leaf nodes.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2025
This long-distance fiber optic cable has three intermediate nodes and low-loss optical switches that allow reconfiguration between quantum and classical signals.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 8 Apr. 2025
Built using base material lithium niobate, the device also allows for the readout of the qubit state or convert quantum information into light packets for transfer between quantum computing nodes.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 2 Apr. 2025
Additional nodes for the Editors' Choice-winning eero 6+ are $140 each.
—PCMAG, 2 Mar. 2025
Caltech Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have successfully demonstrated multiplex entanglement inside a quantum network with two nodes, each containing multiple individual qubits.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2025
Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 9 Apr. 2025
Removing the leaves exposes the leaf nodes.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2025
Be careful not to disturb the leaf nodes.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2025
New roots will form at the leaf nodes.
—Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Apr. 2025
This long-distance fiber optic cable has three intermediate nodes and low-loss optical switches that allow reconfiguration between quantum and classical signals.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 8 Apr. 2025
Built using base material lithium niobate, the device also allows for the readout of the qubit state or convert quantum information into light packets for transfer between quantum computing nodes.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 2 Apr. 2025
Additional nodes for the Editors' Choice-winning eero 6+ are $140 each.
—PCMAG, 2 Mar. 2025
Caltech Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have successfully demonstrated multiplex entanglement inside a quantum network with two nodes, each containing multiple individual qubits.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Nodes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nodes. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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