Cycloid vs Null - What's the difference?
cycloid | null |
(geometry) The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on a fixed straight line.
(zoology) A fish having cycloid scales.
Resembling a circle; cycloidal.
Thin and rounded, with smooth edges.
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 cycloid and null
is that cycloid is (geometry) the locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on a fixed straight line while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective cycloid
is resembling a circle; cycloidal.cycloid
English
(wikipedia cycloid)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* cycloidal * cycloidal arch * cycloidal engineSee also
* Spirograph™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.