Vertex vs Null - What's the difference?
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The highest point of something.
(anatomy) The highest surface on the skull.
(geometry) The common point of the two rays of the angle, or its equivalent structure in polyhedra (meeting of edges) and higher order polytopes.
(mathematics) A point on the curve with a local minimum or maximum of curvature.
(graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.
(computer graphics) A point in space, usually given in terms of its Cartesian coordinates.
(optics) The point where the surface of a lens crosses the optical axis.
(nuclear, or, particle physics) An interaction point.
(astrology) The point where the prime vertical meets the ecliptic in the western hemisphere of a natal chart.
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 vertex and null
is that vertex is the highest point of something while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.vertex
English
(wikipedia vertex)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (highest point) acme, apex, peak, top * (part of a graph) nodeDerived terms
* vertexal, vertexialSee also
*Mathworld article on vertices of polyhedra*
Mathworld article on verticies of polygons----
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.