Node Computer Science Fundamentals
noun
Definition 1: A fundamental element of a graph, tree, or network structure [Cambridge Dictionary].
Example in context: “The closeness of a node is the distance to all other nodes in the graph or in the case that the graph is not connected to all other nodes in the connected component containing that node.” [Vakil, Amiri 2023]
Definition 2: In ML, a node may also refer to a unit in a neural network or a decision point in a tree [Google ML Glossary].
Example in context:“After getting the sentence embedding, we fed it into an LSTM layer, which contains 128 hidden nodes.” [Alecakir et al. 2024]
Synonym: vertex (graph theory)
Related terms: tree node, neuron (NN context), graph node