Answer to "Points of origin" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word NODES , but the solution may also be GENESES which is one of the most recent solution (2015 in LA Times).

Points of origin crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
NODES	50 %	5
GENESES	50 %	7

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Points of origin

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• biceps
• bicipital
• base
• center
• draw
• east
• focus
• graph
• head
• identify
• intercept
• make

Crossword Answer definitions

NODES noun

1. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
2. The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
3. A leaf node.
4. A computer or other device attached to a network.
5. The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
6. The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
7. A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
8. A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
9. A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
10. A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
11. The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
12. A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun's declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
13. The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result NODES

• Swellings
• Network junctions
• Connecting points
• Goose eggs
• Junction points
• Anatomical knots
• Lymphatic system parts
• Intersection points
• Points of juncture
• Crossing points

More clues leading to the result GENESES

• Origins
• Inceptions
• Beginnings
• Creations
• Points of origin
• Commencements
• Roots
• Origins.
• Starting points
• Very beginnings