Contionary:knott
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Niemish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /knɔtt/
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *knuttô.
{{nm-noun-f0h|knòtt|knot
- (botany) bud
- (anatomy) navel
- (botany) A leaf node.
- (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions
- (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane
- (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