A small windmill mounted at right angles to the sails, at the rear of the windmill, used to turn the cap automatically to bring it into the wind.
Any of several birds, of the genus Rhipidura, from Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
Any of several goldfish having a large fan-shaped tail.
A brimmed hat with just the back of the brim turned up.
Any of several domestic varieties of pigeon having a fan-shaped tail.
An overhanging deck at the stern of a ship.
The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
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.
A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
A region of an electric circuit connected only by (ideal) wires (i.e the voltage between any two points on the same node must be zero).
A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
A leaf node.
A computer or other device attached to a network.
A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.