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Aug. 31, 2016
nodus\NOH-duh s\noun
1. a difficult or intricate point, situation, plot, etc.
QuotesWe are approaching the true nodus of our business, difficulty of
difficulties ...
-- Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick
the Great, 1858â65
Origin of nodusNodus stems from the Latin nÅdus meaning "knot." It
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