Quadrangle vs Null - What's the difference?
quadrangle | null |
(geometry) A geometric shape with four angles and four straight sides; a four-sided polygon.
A courtyard which is quadrangular.
* 1959 , , chapter 7,
The buildings forming the border of such a courtyard.
* 1959 , , chapter 13,
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 quadrangle and null
is that quadrangle is (geometry) a geometric shape with four angles and four straight sides; a four-sided polygon while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.quadrangle
English
(wikipedia quadrangle)Noun
(en noun)- I looked up from my desk and saw that suddenly there were big flakes twirling down into the quadrangle , settling on the carefully pruned shrubbery bordering the crosswalks, the three elms still holding many of their leaves, the still-green lawns.
- The quadrangle surrounding the Far Common was never considered absolutely essential to the Devon School.
Synonyms
* (geometry) quadrilateral, 4-gon, tetragonHyponyms
* (geometry) rectangle, square, parallelogram, rhombus, trapezoidnull
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.