Knot (disambiguation)
Appearance
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A knot is a fastening in rope or interwoven lines. For a list of knots see list of knots.
Knot or knots may also refer to:
- Knot (unit), of speed
- Knot (wood), a timber imperfection
Places
[edit]- Knot, Nancowry, a village in India
Archaeology
[edit]- Knot of Isis (tyet), symbol of welfare/life.
- Minoan snake goddess figurines#Sacral knot
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Films
[edit]- Knots (film), a 2004 film starring Scott Cohen and Annabeth Gish
- Knots, a 2011 film starring Kimberly-Rose Wolter
Music
[edit]- Rosette (music), soundhole decoration on string instruments
- Knots (Sons of Noel and Adrian album), a 2012 album by Sons of Noel and Adrian
- Knots (Crash of Rhinos album), a 2013 album by Crash of Rhinos
- Knots (EP), a 2018 extended play by Moira Dela Torre and Nieman Gatus
- "Knots", a song by Gentle Giant
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]- KNOT, a radio station in Prescott, Arizona, United States
- Knots, a 1970 book of poetry by R. D. Laing
Biology
[edit]- Red knot, a wading bird (simply called "knot" in Europe)
- Great knot, a wading bird
- Trigger point or knot, a small, hard, tender spot in a muscle
- Bulbus glandis or knot, an erectile swelling on a canid penis
Mathematics
[edit]- Knot (mathematics), an abstract representation of an interwoven linear object
- Knot (graph theory), an inescapable section of a directed graph
- Knot (regression), points on a spline
- Knot theory, the study of mathematical knots
Other uses
[edit]- Knot (heraldry), design incorporating a knot
- Knot (papermaking), a clump of fibres in paper pulp
- Knot DNS, software
- Cometary knots in planetary nebulae
See also
[edit]- Knott (disambiguation)
- Celtic knot, a decorative graphic representation of a knot
- Gordian Knot, a very complex knot in Ancient Greek mythology
- Garlic knot, a bread appetiser in the shape of a knot
- Knot garden, an elaborate interlace of tightly clipped low hedging
- Knotted wrack, a seaweed
- Knotgrass or knotweed, any of the plants in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae
- Knotting, Bedfordshire, a village in England
- Knots Landing, an American soap opera
- Mary Untier of Knots, a Marian devotion
- The Knot (disambiguation)