Curve vs Null - What's the difference?
curve | null |
(obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
A gentle bend, such as in a road.
A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
(analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
(geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
(algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
(topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
(informal, usually in plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
To bend; to crook.
To cause to swerve from a straight course.
To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
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 verb curve
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.curve
English
Adjective
- a curve line
- a curve surface
Noun
(wikipedia curve) (en noun)- You should slow down when approaching a curve .
- She scribbled a curve on the paper.
- The teacher was nice and graded the test on a curve
Derived terms
* algebraic curve * * closed curve * cosine curve * curvaceous * curvy * dragon curve * elliptic curve * learning curve * Lissajous curve * Jordan curve * multicurve * nonsimple curve * open curve * pedal curve * plane curve * pursuit curve * simple curve * sine curve * space curve * spherical curveVerb
(curv)- to curve a line
- to curve a pipe
- to curve a ball in pitching it
- the road curves to the right
- The teacher will curve the test.
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.