Knot (disambiguation)
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Knot may refer to:
- knot – a fastening or securing of linear material such as rope, by tying or interweaving
- List of knots
- Knotted rope or quipu, an Incan record-keeping device
- Decorative knotwork in East Asia, including Chinese and Korean knots
- Knots per sq cm, a measure of quality in hand-knotted carpets
- Celtic knot, a decorative graphic representation of a knot
- knot (mathematics), an abstract representation of an interwoven linear object
- knot theory, the study of mathematical knots
- list of mathematical knots and links
- In the theory of splines, a knot is an interpolating point on the spline.
- knot (speed), a unit of water or air speed ideally equaling 1 nautical mile per hour, depending on the relative motion of the medium
- knot (wood), a mark left in timber by the origin of branches; the knot's grain travels in a different direction to the trunk of the tree
- Knotwork, a neofolk musical duo comprising journalist Michael Moynihan and Annabel Lee.
In biology:
- Red Knot, a wading bird (simply called "Knot" in Europe)
- Great Knot, a wading bird
- Knotted Marjoram, an alternative name for the herb Marjoram
- Knotted wrack, a seaweed
- Knotgrass or knotweed, a member of the buckwheat family
Knot may also refer to:
- the bulbus glandis, a part of the penis of a canine, in animal anatomy
- a knot garden, an elaborate interlace of tightly-clipped low hedging
- a tight cluster or group, in statistics
- a type of join, in figurative language, as in a marriage
- a small, hard, tender spot in a muscle referred to as a kink or trigger point
- Cramp, a strong muscle contraction resulting in pain
Knots may refer to:
- Knots (film), a 2004 film starring Scott Cohen and Annabeth Gish
- Knots, a 1970 book on psychology by R. D. Laing.
[change] See also
- Knott
- Knots Landing, an American soap opera
- Gordian Knot (disambiguation)
- In some languages, the words for "node" and "knot" are the same.
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