Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physical, the zero-point upon the scale of any instrument.
- noun The dual of a null-plane.
- noun Tho origin or beginning point in the representation of a set by the points on a straight line.
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Examples
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One-Eye observed, "She's also a magical null-point."
Shadows Linger Cook, Glen 1984
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To the fancy alone it is the null-point, or zero, but to the reason it is the _punctum saliens_, and the power itself in its eminence.
Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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