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A knot is a fastening in rope or interwoven lines.

Contents

• Other common meanings
• Arts, entertainment, and media
• Films
• Music
• Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
• Biology
• Mathematics
• Other uses
• See also

Knot or knots may also refer to:

Other common meanings

• Knot (unit), of speed
• Knot (wood), a timber imperfection

Arts, entertainment, and media

Biology

• 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

• Knot (mathematics), an abstract representation of an interwoven linear object
• Knot (graph theory), an inescapable section of a directed graph
• Knot, a point on a spline at which different segments meet

Other uses

• Knot, Nancowry, a village in India
• Heraldic knot, used in European heraldry
• Knot (papermaking), a clump of fibres in paper pulp
• Knot DNS, software
• Cometary knot, in planetary nebulae

See also

• Knott (disambiguation)
• Knotts, a list of people with the surname
• 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
• Mary Untier of Knots, a Marian devotion
• The Knot (disambiguation)

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