Node vs. Cell — What's the Difference?

A knob, knot, protuberance, or swelling.

A narrow confining room, as in a prison or convent.

(Medicine) A small, well-defined mass of tissue that is either normal or pathological, as a lymph node or a node at an arthritic joint.

A small enclosed cavity or space, such as a compartment in a honeycomb or within a plant ovary or an area bordered by veins in an insect's wing.

A point or area where two lines, paths, or parts intersect or branch off

(Biology) The smallest structural unit of an organism that is capable of independent functioning, consisting of cytoplasm, usually one nucleus, and various other organelles, all surrounded by a semipermeable cell membrane.

A focal point or a point of interaction

(Architecture) See web.

(Botany) The point on a stem where a leaf is attached or has been attached; a joint.

The smallest organizational unit of a clandestine group or movement, such as a banned political movement or a terrorist group. A cell's leader is often the only person who knows members of the organization outside the cell.

See knot1.

A single unit for electrolysis or conversion of chemical into electric energy, usually consisting of a container with electrodes and an electrolyte; a battery. Also called electrochemical cell.

(Physics) A point or region of virtually zero amplitude in a wave or periodic system.

A single unit that converts radiant energy into electric energy

(Mathematics) The point at which a continuous curve crosses itself.

A fuel cell.

(Computers) A terminal in a computer network.

A geographic area or zone surrounding a transmitter in a cellular telephone system.

Either of two diametrically opposite points at which the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic.

A cellphone.

Either of two points at which the orbit of a satellite intersects the orbital plane of a planet.

(Computers) A basic unit of storage in a computer memory that can hold one unit of information, such as a character or word.

A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.

A storm cell.

(astronomy) 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 small humble abode, such as a hermit's cave or hut.

(botany) A leaf node.

A small religious house dependent on a larger one, such as a priory within an abbey.

(networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.

A box or other unit on a spreadsheet or similar array at the intersection of a column and a row.

(engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.

To store in a honeycomb.

(geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.

To live in or share a prison cell.

(geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.

A single-room dwelling for a hermit.

(graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.

A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment.

(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.

A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person.

(physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.

A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates.

(rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.

Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb.

(technical) 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.

Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions.

(computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

(entomology) The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect.

(electronics) 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).

(obsolete) Specifically, any of the supposed compartments of the brain, formerly thought to be the source of specific mental capacities, knowledge, or memories.

A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.

A section or compartment of a larger structure.

One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary.

Any small dwelling; a remote nook, a den.

A special point in a graph or diagram which is attached to other points by links. It is often labeled and represented graphically as a box or circle. A node may represent any object which is related to other objects in a conceptual structure that can be represented as a graph, the relations being represented as links between the nodes.

A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery.

A small mass of tissue differing from other tissue in its immediate vicinity; as, a lymph node.

(biology) The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself.

A connecting point at which several lines come together

(meteorology) A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front.

Any thickened enlargement

(computing) The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.

(physics) the point of minimum displacement in a periodic system

(card games) In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed.

(astronomy) a point where an orbit crosses a plane

A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one.

The source of lymph and lymphocytes

(communication) A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode.

Any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part

(communication) A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network.

(computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network

(geometry) A three-dimensional facet of a polytope. Category:en:Higher-dimensional geometry

(statistics) The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect.

(architecture) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

(architecture) A cella.

(entomology) An area of an insect wing bounded by veins.

A cellular phone.

(transitive) To place or enclose in a cell.

A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.

A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

Any small cavity, or hollow place.

The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.

A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.

One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.

To place or inclose in a cell.

Any small compartment;

(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; cells may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals

A device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction

A small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement

A hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections (cells), each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver

Small room is which a monk or nun lives

A room where a prisoner is kept