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1897 Geogr. Jrnl. 9 78 A higher degree of ‘nodality’, to use Mr. Mackinder's term, is found where several such furrows [sc. shallow valleys in the chalk] meet to form a well-marked though by no means deep hollow.

1902 H. J. Mackinder Britain & Brit. Seas xix. 330 A spot upon which more numerous land and water roads converge, as in a defile past some natural obstacle, may be said to have a higher degree of nodality.

1953 J. M. Houston Social Geogr. Europe ix. 205 In cities of long history, such as Paris, it is easy to point out the geographical advantages of the site and the elements of nodality, whether at a bridge-head, a crossing of routes or at a transfer point.

1995 National Rev. (Nexis) 1 May Just as she [sc. France] links Germany to the Atlantic and to the Iberian peninsula and Great Britain, so she also links the North of Europe to the South... This nodality is reflected in her extreme ethnic heterogeneity.

1904 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 1 688 Indeed there are a few indications set forth in the text of a yet earlier age—nodality or meristic segmentation.

1994 Jrnl. Appl. Behavior Anal. 27 673 Results suggest a nodality effect, in which relations with fewer nodes are demonstrated prior to the demonstration of relations with a greater number of nodes.

1905 Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 41 602 In any given lake, seiches of all degrees of nodality, i.e. uninodal, binodal, trinodal, etc., are possible.

1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. v. 299 In the case of Loch Earn, periods have been identified which may belong to a nodality as high as the sixteenth.

1977 Limnol. & Oceanogr. 22 704/1 Here n is an integer which represents the cross-channel nodality of the wave.