Oblique vs Null - What's the difference?
oblique | null |
Not erect or perpendicular; neither parallel to, nor at right angles from, the base; slanting; inclined.
* Cheyne
Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister.
* Drayton
* De Quincey
* Wordsworth
Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.
* Baker
(botany, of leaves) Having the base of the blade asymmetrical, with one side larger or extending further than the other.
To deviate from a perpendicular line; to move in an oblique direction.
* Projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine. - Sir. W. Scott.
(military) To march in a direction oblique to the line of the column or platoon; — formerly accomplished by oblique steps, now by direct steps, the men half-facing either to the right or left.
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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 oblique
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.oblique
English
Adjective
(er)- It has a direction oblique to that of the former motion.
- The love we bear our friends Hath in it certain oblique ends.
- This mode of oblique research, when a more direct one is denied, we find to be the only one in our power.
- Then would be closed the restless, oblique eye / That looks for evil, like a treacherous spy.
- His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in an oblique but weak.
Derived terms
* oblique angle * oblique arch * oblique ascension * oblique bridge * oblique case * oblique circle * oblique fire * oblique flank * oblique line * oblique motion * oblique muscle * oblique narration * oblique plane * oblique sailing * oblique speech * oblique sphere * oblique step * oblique system of coordinatesVerb
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.
