Vortex vs Null - What's the difference?
vortex | null |
A whirlwind, whirlpool, or similarly moving matter in the form of a spiral or column.
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, author=Frank Fish, George Lauder
, title=Not Just Going with the Flow
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(figuratively) Anything that involves constant violent or chaotic activity around some centre.
(figuratively) Anything that inevitably draws surrounding things into its current.
(historical) A supposed collection of particles of very subtle matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or planet; part of a Cartesian theory accounting for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it.
(zoology) Any of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera.
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 vortex and null
is that vortex is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.vortex
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex'''''. The ' vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
Quotations
2004': the consumer '''vortex that is East Hampton — ''The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.38See also
* eddy * ley line * maelstromReferences
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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.