nodal figures

Figures formed by the nodal lines nomine, in (in Literally, no'-mi-ne) in the Lat. name: meaning in of a vibrating plate or membrane. the name of the Lord. Nodal lines are the lines of compara- 1. A motet, a musical composition tive or absolute rest on the vibrating which was the anthem of medieval surface, and their existence is made times. known by spreading fine, dry sand 2. In nomine is also applied to one upon the plate. When in motion the vibrating portions throw the sand kind of fugue, the free fugue, which upon the nodal lines, forming nodal is so called because it is a fugue in name but not in strict accordance figures of remarkable symmetry. with rules. These figures are also called Chladni's figures, as they were discovered and nomo (no'-mo) Italian It. See also nomes. for nome. studied by Chladni, a Pru ian authority on acoustics. nomos (no'-mos) Grk. n. nodal point Literally, law: Greek songs that node conformed to certain fixed laws; the Greek nome.