A knot is a fastening in rope or interwoven lines.

Knot or knots may also refer to:

Other common meanings

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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Knots (film), a 2004 film
  • 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, a point on a spline at which different segments meet

Other uses

  • Knot, Nancowry, a village in India
  • Heraldic knot, used in European heraldry
  • Knot (papermaking), a clump of fibres in paper pulp
  • Knot DNS, software
  • Cometary knot, in planetary nebulae

See also

  • Knott (disambiguation)
  • Knotts, a list of people with the surname
  • 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
  • Mary Untier of Knots, a Marian devotion
  • The Knot (disambiguation)