knot A knot is an intentional complication in cordage which may be practical or decorative, or both. Practical knots are classified by function, including hitches, bends, loop knots, and splices: a ''hitch'' fastens a rope to another object; a ' ...

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

Places

* Knot, Nancowry, a village in India

Archaeology

* Knot of Isis (

tyet The tyet ( egy, tjt), sometimes called the knot of Isis or girdle of Isis, is an ancient Egyptian symbol that came to be connected with the goddess Isis. Its hieroglyphic depiction is catalogued as V39 in Gardiner's sign list. In many respects ...

), 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

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 Gentle Giant were a British progressive rock band active between 1970 and 1980. The band were known for the complexity and sophistication of their music and for the varied musical skills of their members. All of the band members were multi-inst ...

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

KNOT A knot is an intentional complication in cordage which may be practical or decorative, or both. Practical knots are classified by function, including hitches, bends, loop knots, and splices: a ''hitch'' fastens a rope to another object; a ' ...

, a radio station in Prescott, Arizona, United States * ''Knots'', a 1970 book of poetry by

R. D. Laing Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illnessin particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment o ...

Biology

Red knot The red knot or just knot (''Calidris canutus'') is a medium-sized shorebird which breeds in tundra and the Arctic Cordillera in the far north of Canada, Europe, and Russia. It is a large member of the ''Calidris'' sandpipers, second only to the ...

, a wading bird (simply called "knot" in Europe) *

Great knot __NOTOC__ The great knot (''Calidris tenuirostris'') is a small wader. It is the largest of the calidrid species. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''kalidris'' or ''skalidris'', a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds ...

, 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

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) This is a glossary of graph theory. Graph theory is the study of graphs, systems of nodes or vertices connected in pairs by lines or edges. Symbols A B ...

, an inescapable section of a directed graph * Knot (regression), 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

* Knot (heraldry), 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) Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin tha ...

, 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 ...

, software *

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