Node - in Science

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
• 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