Crux vs Null - What's the difference?
crux | null |
The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.
* 1993 , Laurence M. Porter, "Real Dreams, Literary Dreams, and the Fantastic in Literature", pages 32-47 in'' Carol Schreier Rupprecht (ed.) ''The Dream and the Text: Essays on Literature and Language .
A puzzle or difficulty.
The hardest point of a climb.
* 1973 , Pat Armstrong, "Klondike Fever: Seventy Years Too Late", in Backpacker , Autumn 1973, page 84:
* 2004 , Craig Luebben, Rock Climbing: Mastering Basic Skills , The Mountaineers Books, ISBN 9780898867435,
* 2009 , R. J. Secor, The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes, and Trails , Third Edition, The Mountaineers Books, ISBN 9780898869712,
(heraldiccharge) A cross on a coat of arms.
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 a proper noun crux
is (constellation) a distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross it appears in the flags of several countries in oceania.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.crux
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.
- The mad certitude of the ogre, Abel Tiffauges, that he stands at the crux of history and that he will be able to raise Prussia "to a higher power" (p. 180), contrasts sharply with the anxiety and doubt attendant upon most modern literary dreams.
- The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists. — Strauss.
- The final half-mile was the crux of the climb.
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- Most pitches have a distinct crux', or tough spot; some have multiple '''cruxes'''. ΒΆ Climb efficiently on the "cruiser" sections to stay fresh for the ' cruxes .
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- Continue climbing the groove; the crux is passing some vegetation on the second pitch.
null
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.