In Science
- Biology
- Primitive node is the organizer tissue for gastrulation in vertebrates.
- Node (botany), the place on a plant stem where a leaf is attached
- In Cladistics, a shared ancestor (also see Clade)
- Space
- Orbital node, the points where an orbit crosses a plane of reference
- Lunar node, where the orbits of the sun and moon intersect
- Longitude of the node, how orbital nodes are parameterised
- Node 4, a proposed module of the International Space Station
- Node Module, a planned module of the International Space Station
- Orbital node, the points where an orbit crosses a plane of reference
- Physics
- Node (physics), a point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude
- Linguistics
- Node (linguistics), a branch point in the Tree model, or Node Theory, of language evolution
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