The word "node" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun to refer to a point where lines or pathways intersect, a junction, or any central or essential point. For example: "The two roads converged at a node in the center of town."
I got a vocal node and it made theatre work very difficult.
"I find this reassuring, but [the researchers] have told me that people's romantic partners are rarely their largest node.
"The largest node in the graph, the person I exchange the most email with, is my wife, Rachel," he writes.
"We can stop looking at a car as one system," says Rahul Mangharam, an engineer at the University of Pennsylvania, "and look at it as a node in a network .Technology Quarterly Building the smart grid Third time lucky Very handy Red tape in orbit Running on air Spies in the sky Dot Mars On the pulse Zap! Taken your medicine?
Similarly, the ability to treat a car as a node on a network is shaking up the idea of car ownership itself.
Since each node on FreeNet keeps a copy of every file that passes through it, there will be lots of copies of popular content.
When the number of counterparties seems infinite, traders are free to concoct ever-more-complex schemes involving ever-greater leverage which create an ever-bigger threat of systemic collapse whenever one node in this interconnected network (such as Lehman Brothers) fails.
If one node goes down, the system finds an alternative path for the traffic.
Even with an excellent acoustic link, a mine-hunting UUV cannot stream all the data it collects to a submarine or surface node.
PCCW is now advising telecoms firms in several countries about how to emulate its successful roll-out of IPTV.PCCW's success provides a glimpse of the future in a technical sense as well, because it is based not on "fibre to the premises" but on a less expensive method called "fibre to the node" (FTTN) that is being adopted by many other telecoms firms.
Normally the sinoatrial node generates regular electrical pulses that spread across the chambers of the heart, causing the cells to contract in synchrony.
