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Nodal point

Nodal \Nod"al\, a. Of the nature of, or relating to, a node; as, a nodal point.

Nodal line, Nodal point, in a vibrating plate or cord, that line or point which remains at rest while the other parts of the body are in a state of vibration.

Usage examples of "nodal point".

If he had tried, in Los Angeles, would the box-cutter blade have emerged from Alison Shires' nodal point?

If he had tried, in Los Angeles, would the box-cutter blade have emerged from Alison Shires’ nodal point?

Now, driven by a new urgency (and augmented by virtually the entire population of the Walled City, working in a mode of simultaneity that very nearly approximates unison) he succeeds in actually being there, within a space defined by the emerging factors of the nodal point.

Harmonic resonance levels began to drop, and nodal point explosions ceased.

Tom's prober beam would naturally have to terminate at the nodal point of the wave, too.

On the face of it, this should be the nodal point, communications-wise, for the tower structure.

But in that long way the vital stage, the focal point, the nodal point, the venturi in the funnel, is Amsterdam.

In her heart there was a growing suspicion that this might be a nodal point.