Knot (disambiguation)

A knot is a fastening in rope or interwoven lines.

Knot or knots may also refer to:

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

Places

• Knot, Nancowry, a village in India

Archaeology

• Knot of Isis (tyet), 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

Music

• Rosette (music), 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

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• KNOT, a radio station in Prescott, Arizona, United States
• Knots, a 1970 book of poetry by R. D. Laing

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 (regression), points on a spline
• Knot theory, the study of mathematical knots

Other uses

• Knot (heraldry), design incorporating a knot
• Knot (papermaking), a clump of fibres in paper pulp
• Knot DNS, software
• Cometary knots in planetary nebulae

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
• Mary Untier of Knots, a Marian devotion
• The Knot (disambiguation)