Definition of Nodal

1. a. Of the nature of, or relating to, a node; as, a nodal point.

Definition of Nodal

1. Adjective. Of the nature of, or relating to, a node. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nodal

1. of the nature of a node [adj] : NODALLY [adv]

Medical Definition of Nodal

1. Relating to any node. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nodal

nocturnalist
nocturnalists
nocturnality
nocturnally
nocturne
nocturnelike
nocturnes
nocturns
nocument
nocuous
nocuously
nod
nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat
nod off
nod through
nodal (current term)
nodal bigeminy
nodal bradycardia
nodal fever
nodal plane
nodal point
nodal rhythm
nodal tachycardia
nodal tissue
nodalise
nodalised
nodalises
nodalities
nodality
nodalize

Literary usage of Nodal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Light by Robert Alexander Houstoun (1915)
"The nodal Slide. The focal planes of a system of lenses can be found very easily by simply letting a beam of parallel light fall on it from each side in ..."

2. Effects of Winds and of Barometric Pressures on the Great Lakes by John Fillmore Hayford (1922)
"A nodal line passes through the nodal point of the profile and extends across the ... Under the action of a wind, the nodal line on the surface of the water ..."

3. A Treatise on the Analytic Geometry of Three Dimensions by George Salmon (1882)
"Similarly, in the case of 15 nodes, the sextic cone has fourteen nodal lines, ... In the case of 14 nodes, the cone has thirteen nodal lines, ..."

4. Diseases of the heart by James Mackenzie (1908)
"Manner in which the nodal rhythm leads to heart failure. 157. ... In the vast majority of cases of nodal rhythm the heart beats more rapidly than normal, ..."

5. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1899)
"ON THE nodal LINES OF A SQUARE PLATE. [Phil. Mag. XLVI. pp. ... In the latter case symmetry suffices to shew that the nodal lines are the diagonals of the ..."

6. Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses: A Text-book of Geometrical Optics by James Powell Cocke Southall (1918)
"Construction of the nodal Poi termined the position of the point Q' easily locate the positions of the nods example, on the straight line WQ' (Fig such that ..."

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