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A knot is a fastening in rope or interwoven lines. Knot may also refer to:


Places

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Knot, Nancowry Knot is a village in the Nicobar district of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. It is located in the Nancowry tehsil. Demographics According to the 2011 census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted ...
, a village in India


Archaeology

* Knot of Isis ( tyet), symbol of welfare/life. * Minoan snake goddess figurines#Sacral knot


Arts, entertainment, and media


Films

* ''Knots'' (film), a 2004 film starring Scott Cohen and Annabeth Gish * ''Knots'', a 2011 film starring
Kimberly-Rose Wolter Kimberly-Rose Wolter is an American actress, writer, producer and co-founder of VS Theatre company in Los Angeles, California. Film Wolter has written and starred in two feature films, 2003's ''Tre'' which won the Special Jury Prize at the 2007 ...


Music

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Rosette (music) A rosette (from French, meaning ''little rose''), rose, or knot, in the context of musical instruments, is a form of soundhole decoration. The name originated during the medieval period, as a comparison with church windows which were called rose ...
, 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

* KNOT, a radio station in Prescott, Arizona, United States * ''Knots'', a 1970 book of poetry by R. D. Laing


Biology

* Red knot, a wading bird (simply called "knot" in Europe) * Great knot, a wading bird *
Trigger point Myofascial trigger points (MTrPs), also known as trigger points, are described as hyperirritable spots in the skeletal muscle. They are associated with palpable nodules in taut bands of muscle fibers. They are a topic of ongoing controversy, ...
or knot, a small, hard, tender spot in a muscle *''
Bulbus glandis The bulbus glandis (also called a bulb or knot) is an erectile tissue structure on the penis of canid mammals. During mating, immediately before ejaculation the tissues swell up to lock ('' tie'') the male's penis inside the female. The locking i ...
'' or knot, an erectile swelling on a canid penis


Mathematics

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Knot (mathematics) In mathematics, a knot is an embedding of the circle into three-dimensional Euclidean space, (also known as ). Often two knots are considered equivalent if they are ambient isotopic, that is, if there exists a continuous deformation of ...
, an abstract representation of an interwoven linear object * Knot (graph theory), an inescapable section of a directed graph *
Knot (regression) In mathematics, a spline is a special function defined piecewise by polynomials. In interpolating problems, spline interpolation is often preferred to polynomial interpolation because it yields similar results, even when using low degree polyno ...
, points on a spline *
Knot theory In the mathematical field of topology, knot theory is the study of knot (mathematics), mathematical knots. While inspired by knots which appear in daily life, such as those in shoelaces and rope, a mathematical knot differs in that the ends are ...
, the study of mathematical knots


Other uses

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Knot (heraldry) A heraldic knot (referred to in heraldry as simply a knot) is a knot, unknot, or design incorporating a knot used in European heraldry. While a given knot can be used on more than one family's achievement of arms, the family on whose coat the kno ...
, design incorporating a knot *
Knot (papermaking) Knots are unwanted, large, dark aggregates of wood fibres when making chemical pulp. Knots are incompletely cooked wood chips coming out of the digester. Their origin is often dense parts of branches, such as compression wood or timber knots &ndash ...
, a clump of fibres in paper pulp *
Knot (unit) The knot () is a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour, exactly (approximately or ). The ISO standard symbol for the knot is kn. The same symbol is preferred by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), while kt ...
, of speed * Knot (wood), a timber imperfection *
Knot DNS Knot DNS is an open-source authoritative-only server for the Domain Name System. It was created from scratch and is actively developed by CZ.NIC, the .CZ domain registry. The purpose of this project is to supply an alternative open-source impl ...
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Cometary knot Cometary knots, also referred as globules, are structures observed in several nearby planetary nebulae (PNe), including the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), the Ring Nebula (NGC 6720), the Dumbbell Nebula (NGC 6853), the Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392), and th ...
s in planetary nebulae


See also

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Knott (disambiguation) Knott or The Knott may refer to: * Knott, Caldbeck, a mountain in the northern part of the English Lake District * The Knott, a mountain in the eastern part of the English Lake District * Knott, Skye, a location in Highland, Scotland * Knott, Texa ...
* Celtic knot, a decorative graphic representation of a knot *
Gordian Knot The Gordian Knot is an Ancient Greek legend of Phrygian Gordium associated with Alexander the Great who is said to have cut the knot in 333 BC. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem (untying an impossibly tangled knot) sol ...
, a very complex knot in Ancient Greek mythology *
Garlic knot Garlic knots are a type of garlic bread found primarily in pizzerias around New York City and the surrounding regions. They were developed in the 1940s in Brooklyn. Many pizzerias claim to be the progenitors of the baked good. As they are a way ...
, a bread appetiser in the shape of a knot * Knot garden, an elaborate interlace of tightly clipped low hedging *
Knotted wrack ''Ascophyllum nodosum'' is a large, common cold water seaweed or brown alga ( Phaeophyceae) in the family Fucaceae, being the only species in the genus ''Ascophyllum''. It is a seaweed that only grows in the northern Atlantic Ocean, also known i ...
, a seaweed *
Knotgrass Knotgrass or knot grass is the common name for several plants and a moth and may refer to: *''Paspalum distichum'', a species of grass *''Polygonum'', a genus of plants in the buckwheat family, more often known as knot weed *''Acronicta rumicis ...
or knotweed, any of the plants in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae *
Knotting, Bedfordshire Knotting is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Knotting and Souldrop, in the Bedford district, in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, located near the border with Northamptonshire. Nearby places are, Sharnbrook, Podington, ...
, a village in England *''
Knots Landing ''Knots Landing'' is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from December 27, 1979, to May 13, 1993. A spin-off of ''Dallas'', it was set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles and initially centered on the lives of ...
'', an American soap opera *
Mary Untier of Knots Mary, Untier of Knots or Mary, Undoer of Knots is the name of both a Marian devotion and a Baroque painting (German: ''Wallfahrtsbild'' or ''Gnadenbild'') which represents that devotion. The painting by Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner, of arou ...
, a Marian devotion *
The Knot (disambiguation) The Knot may refer to: Films * ''The Knot'' (1921 film), an Italian silent film directed by Gaston Ravel * ''The Knot'' (2006 film), a Chinese film directed by Yin Li * ''The Knot'' (2012 film), a British film starring Noel Clarke Other uses * ...
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