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Node definition - hacker
Any devices attached to a telecommunications network such as cell phones, computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other network appliances. In the IP domain, any device having an IP address is called a node. Servers in a clustering setting, such as database clusters or Web farms (large installations of Web servers), are also called nodes.

See Also: Internet Protocol (IP); IP Address; Network; Telecom.

About, Inc. Node. [Online, 2004.] About, Inc. Website. http:// compnetworking.about.com/library/glossary/bldef-node.htm.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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