Latitude vs Null - What's the difference?
latitude | null |
(geography, astronomy) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.
(geography) An imaginary line (in fact a circle) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator.
The relative freedom from restrictions; scope to do something.
(astronomy) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic.
(photography) The extent to which a light-sensitive material can be over- or underexposed and still achieve an acceptable result.
* Wikipedia article on (exposure latitude)
Extent or scope; e.g. breadth, width or amplitude.
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 latitude and null
is that latitude is (geography|astronomy) the angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.latitude
English
(wikipedia latitude)Noun
(en noun)- His parents gave him a great deal of latitude .
Usage notes
* When used to refer to distances or imaginary lines around a planet, latitude is relative to the Earth's Equator unless another planet is specified.Derived terms
* ascending latitude * circle of latitude * geographical latitude * high latitude * horse latitudes * low latitudeSee also
* longitude * zonalAnagrams
* altitude ----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.