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knot | American Dictionary

knot
noun[ C ]
us/nɑt/

knotnoun[C] (FASTENING)

a fastening made by tying together a piece or pieces of string, rope, cloth, etc.:
Wrap this string around the package and then tie a knot.
fig. She’s so nervous, her stomach is in knots (= feels tight and uncomfortable).

knotnoun[C] (GROUP)

a group of people or things:
After the game, disappointed knots of people drifted away.

knotnoun[C] (WOOD)

a hard, dark area on a tree or piece of wood where a branch was joined to the tree

knotnoun[C] (MEASUREMENT)

a measure of speed for ships, aircraft, or movements of water and air equal to approximately 6076 feet (1.85 kilometers) an hour

knot

verb[ I/T ]us/nɑt/-tt-
[ T ]He knotted his tie carefully.

knot | Business English

knot
noun[ C ]
uk /nɒt/us
MEASURES
a measure of the speed of ships, aircraft, or movements of water and air. One knot is approximately 1.85 kilometres per hour:
The flight takes an hour, flying at 140 knots.
 tie the knot
if two or more companies tie the knot, they join to become one company:
The two airline companies finally agreed to tie the knot after last-minute haggling over ownership.

Examples of knot

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I shall conclude this discussion by examining this theoretical knot.
It is a necessary and sufficient condition for a knot to be the circle.
These knots persist for a time of the order of the vertical thermal diffusion time.
Could a highly complex network of filaments and knots such as this represent a frozen message?
In another exercise, called 'circle of knots', participants made a circle holding hands.
A wind speed of at least 15 knots (kt) blowing nearly at right angles to the ridge (within 30x).
Instead of using the weight and muscular forces of men, it now requires the shape of his finger, for instance to knot broken threads.
For example, for two segments (three knots), four boundary conditions and four continuity conditions exist.
In the third act, one still hears the psychosomatic knots but sees nobody.
This leads to a jerky movement for a large number of knots.
These knots are deported into the maternal circulation and become trapped in the blood vessels of the lungs where they are eventually lysed.
Rather, wires are seen a bit like ropes that can be knotted or tightened (like chemical bonds) with ropes of other components.
Another significant example is to use time intervals proportional to the angular displacement between the knots.
The biped joint coordinates are approximated by cubic splines functions connected at uniformly distributed knots along the motion time.
In this paper we provide tools for deciding whether a knotted commutative calculus admits reductive cut elimination and for automating cut-elimination proofs in these calculi.
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