Vector vs Null - What's the difference?
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(mathematics) A directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points.
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(mathematics) An ordered tuple representing a directed quantity or the (soplink) between two points.
(mathematics) Any member of a (generalized) vector space.
(aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.
(senseid)(epidemiology) A carrier of a disease-causing agent.
(sociology) A person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme.
(psychology) A recurring psychosocial issue that stimulates growth and development in the personality.
The way in which the eyes are drawn across the visual text. The trail that a book cover can encourage the eyes to follow from certain objects to others.
(computing, operating systems) A memory address containing the address of a code entry point, usually one which is part of a table and often one that is dereferenced]] and [[jump, jumped to during the execution of an interrupt.
(programming) A one-dimensional array.
To set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.
* 1994 , Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Tendencies
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 vector and null
is that vector is (mathematics) a directed quantity, one with both magnitude and direction; the signed difference between two points while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb vector
is to set (particularly an aircraft) on a course toward a selected point.vector
Noun
(en noun)- The vectors in are the single-variable polynomials with rational coefficients: one is .
Usage notes
* (programming) The term is used loosely when the indices are not (either positive or non-negative) integers.Hypernyms
*Derived terms
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(en verb)- if love is vectored toward an object and Elinor's here flies toward Marianne, Marianne's in turn toward Willoughby.
References
* The New Oxford Dictionary of EnglishAnagrams
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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.