node

Any device connected to network. PCs, servers, and printers are all nodes on the network.

Slightly swollen structure on the stem, where leaves and buds arise and where branches originate. Stems have nodes but roots do not.

A knot, knob; a protrusion or swelling; a constricted region; a small, rounded organ or structure.

A set of equipment and processes, which performs the communications functions at the end of the data links which interconnect those elements, which are resident on the network.

1. The beginning and ending locations of an arc. A node is topologically linked to all arcs that meet at the node. See also network node.
2. In graph theory, the location at which three or more lines connect.
3. The three corner points of each triangle in a tin. Every sample point input to a tin becomes a node in the triangulation. A triangle node is topologically linked to all triangles that meet at the node.

A location in a hierarchy (often a tree structure) that can have links to one or more nodes below it.

After an Amazon Machine Image is launched, the resulting running system is referred to as a node. All instances based on the same AMI are identical at start-up. Any information about the node is lost when the node terminates or fails.

A network processing location in a grid. A node can be a computer, a set of clustered blades, or some other device, such as a printer.

An addressable entity, such as a computer, a storage device, or a storage subsystem, connected to a network

In general, a node is a basic unit used to build data structures, such as linked lists and tree data structures. In an enterprise search system, a node is usually referred to as "a server".

1. In network topology, a terminal of any branch of a network or an interconnection common to two or more branches of a network. Synonyms junction point, nodal point. 2. In a switched network, one of the switches forming the network backbone. Note: A node may also include patching and control facilities. 3. A technical control facility (TCF). 4. A point in a standing or stationary wave at which the amplitude is a minimum. In this sense, synonym null. 5. A data processing facility that provides information processing resources as part of a network. A node may support user application processes, server application processes or a combination of both kinds of processes [ECMATR46].

The basic building block of a NUMA system, a node is a group of processors and memory connected to the same system bus, possibly connected to other nodes via a NUMA interconnect. Nodes are also referred to as CECs, SMP Expansion Modules, and quads in IBM terminology.