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Revision as of 05:19, 3 February 2002
Both length and velocity are measured in knots; in the former case, it is equivalent to a Nautical mile; in the latter, to a Nautical mile per hour.
A knot consists of a length of one or more ropes, coiled through themselves in a way to produce a structural altering the characteristics of the rope. Knots may be used for fastening ropes to other structures, other ropes, or to let a rope slide along another rope. Knots are instrumental in sailing and climbing, and many other activities.
Knots are often classified as loop, bend, whipping, decorative and hitch.
Alphabetical List
- adjustible hitch
- albright knot
- anchor bend
- arbor knot
- artillery loop
- barrel knot
- blackwall hitch
- blood knot
- bow knot
- bowline on bight
- bowline
- buntline hitch
- butterfly loop
- cat's paw
- chain hitch
- clove hitch
- clove hitch
- constrictor knot
- cow hitch
- diamond knot
- double carrick bend
- double figure eight
- double overhand
- [[double sheet bend
- double stopper
- double uni knot
- dropper loop
- dutra double loop knot
- figure eight follow through
- figure eight knot
- figure eight
- fisherman's eye
- fisherman's knot
- flemish knot
- half hitch
- half hitch
- halyard bend
- hangman's noose
- hitching tie
- improved clinch knot
- italian hitch
- jamming hitch
- jug sling
- killick hitch
- lariat loop
- lark's head
- lineman's loop
- midshipman's hitch
- monkey's fist
- mooring hitch
- nail knot
- orvis knot
- overhand
- palomar knot
- perfection loop
- pile hitch
- reef knot
- ringbolt hitch
- rolling hitch
- round hitch
- running knot
- sailor's knot
- sheep shank
- sheet bend
- sheet bend
- simple simon over
- simple simon under
- single hitch
- single stopper
- slippery hitch
- slippery round hitch
- slip
- square knot
- stevedor's knot
- surgeon's end loop
- surgeon's knot
- taut-line
- thumb knot
- tiller's hitch
- timber hitch
- trilene knot
- trucker's hitch
- two half hitches
- uni knot
- water knot
descriptions and tying instructions should be added
In knot theory, a knot is an embedding of a circle in 3-D space, considered up to deformations (isotopies). This is basically equivalent to a conventional knot with the ends of the string tied together to prevent it from becoming undone. In higher dimensions, circles are unknotted anyways, so one considers embeddings of spheres and hyperspheres.
See also: Scouting