Orb vs Null - What's the difference?
orb | null |
A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be inclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
A circle; especially, a circle, or nearly circular orbit, described by the revolution of a heavenly body; an orbit
(rare) A period of time marked off by the revolution of a heavenly body.
(poetic) The eye, as luminous and spherical
(poetic) A revolving circular body; a wheel
(rare) A sphere of action.
A globus cruciger
A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography
(military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
(poetic) to form into an orb or circle
(poetic) to encircle; to surround; to enclose
* Addison
(poetic) to become round like an orb
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 an initialism orb
is (software engineering).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.orb
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) orbe, from (etyl) . Compare orbit .Noun
(en noun)- In the small orb of one particular tear. --
- Whether the prime orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rolled. --
- The schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics, and epicycles, and such engines of orbs. --Bacon
- You seem to me as Dian in her orb. --
- In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood, Orb within orb. --
- (John Milton)
- A drop serene hath quenched their orbs. --
- The orbs Of his fierce chariot rolled. --
- (William Wordsworth)
- But in our orbs we'll live so round and safe. --
Verb
(en verb)- (Lowell)
- (Milton)
- The wheels were orbed with gold.
Etymology 2
(etyl) .References
*Anagrams
* * * ----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.