Knot (disambiguation)

A knot is a fastening in rope or interwoven lines.

Knot may also refer to:

• Knot (unit), a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour
• Knot (wood), a mark left in timber by the origin of branches
• Knot (papermaking), an undigested clump of wood fibres in chemical paper pulp
• KNOT, a radio station in Prescott, Arizona, United States
• Knot (heraldry)

Mathematics

• Knot (mathematics), an abstract representation of an interwoven linear object
• Knot (graph theory), a inescapable section of a directed graph
• Knot (regression), points on a spline
• Knot theory, the study of mathematical knots

Archeology

• Knot of Isis (tyet),symbol of wellfare/life.
• Sacral knot,a Minoan symbol of holiness,also appeared on the Minoan snake goddess.

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

Media

• The Knot, a 2006 Chinese film
• Knots (film), a 2004 film starring Scott Cohen and Annabeth Gish
• "Knots" (film), a 2011 film starring Kimberly Rose-Wolter
• Knots, a 1970 book of poetry by R. D. Laing
• "Knots", a song by Gentle Giant

See also

• Knott (disambiguation)
• 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
• Knots Landing, an American soap opera