Tangential vs Null - What's the difference?
tangential | null |
Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
* 2002 , Edward Teller, Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics , page 560
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Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.
* 1898 , Gary Nathan Calkins, Mitosis in ''Noctiluca miliaris'' and its bearing on the nuclear relations of the Protozoa and Metazoa , Ph.D. Thesis, page 3
Only indirectly related.
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 adjective tangential
is referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.tangential
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The meteor came in on a tangential orbit and exploded about 8 or 10 miles above the earth's surface, just south of the Arctic Circle.
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- The archoplasm divides and forms a very large spindle which first lies tangential to the surface of the nucleus.
- That subject is tangential to our discussion, and we cannot let it distract us.
Derived terms
* (l)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.