Annulus vs Null - What's the difference?
annulus | null |
A ring- or donut-shaped area or structure.
(geometry) The region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radius.
(topology) Any topological space homeomorphic to the region in a plane between two concentric circles of different radius.
(astronomy) The ring of the sun not covered by the moon in an annular solar eclipse.
(botany) Structure in a fern that consists of differentially thick-walled cells on a sporangium that bend and distort as a result of drying.
(mycology) The membranous remnants of a partial veil which leaves a ring on the stem of a mushroom.
(oil and gas production) The space contained between the centre well bore and any external tubing. Sometimes used for separated gas flow.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between annulus and null
is that annulus is a ring- or donut-shaped area or structure while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.annulus
English
Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (topological space) cylinderHyponyms
* (ring-shaped structure) torusDerived terms
* annulate * annulationnull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.