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Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN): Interface between the GPRS wireless data network and other networks such as the Internet or private networks.

Price Support: Government intervention to set an artificially high price through the use of a price floor designed to aid producers.

Qualified Medical Child Support Order (QMCSO): An order, decree, judgment or administrative notice (including a settlement agreement) requiring health coverage for a child; issued by a domestic relations court or other court of competent . . . View Full Definition

Reishi Mushroom (Ganoderma sinensis): An immunostimulant

Planetary Node: The point at which a planet's path intersects the ecliptic; declination, 0°. The term is usually reserved for nodes other than the Moon's Nodes.

Peanut Price Support Program: The federal program that supports the farm price of peanuts by offering price support loans to peanut growers and by placing limits on the amount of peanuts allowed to be sold for domestic f . . . View Full Definition

Node Factor (F): A factor depending upon the longitude of the Moon's node which, when applied to the mean coefficient of a tidal constituent, will adapt the same to a particular year for which predictions ar . . . View Full Definition

Node Of Ranvier: A gap between two of the Schwann cells that make up an axons myelin sheath; serves as a point for generating a nerve impulse.

Nodes: The two points in a planet's orbit which intercept the Earth's path around the sun (otherwise known as the ecliptic).

Palinode: An ode or song that retracts what the poet wrote in a previous poem: a recantation.