Vertical caving terminology and methods > Knots > Knot construction and behaviour
When the rope is wrapped around the body of the knot once as part of the knot structure. Several knots are derivatives of each other, with half a turn or a full turn extra at some point in the knot's structure. Even though knots may be variants of the same knot, with the same number of additional turns, they can still produce different knots. It depends on when those extra turns are added in the process of tying the knot, and which other parts of the knot pass through the turns. For example, a figure of 9 on a bight and a double overhand on a bight are both based on an overhand on a bight with one additional turn, but they are threaded differently, and are different knots.
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