Places on a Nodal line, so to speak, about the middle of the length of the channel, have a minimum of rise and fall, though the water rushes past them first violently up towards Dover, where the rise is considerable, and then back again towards the ocean.
"Pioneers of Science"
Oliver Lodge
In the first place the curves to which I have but briefly referred actually give rise in most cases to Nodal, or crossing points; sometimes on the equator, sometimes off the equator; through which the path of the satellite returns again and again.
"The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays"
J. (John) Joly
It is even to be considered if such a mass might not become Nodal to the satellite's orbit, so that this passed through or above this point at various inclinations with its primary direction.
"The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays"
J. (John) Joly