Accelerate vs Null - What's the difference?
accelerate | null |
(label) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
(label) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
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(label) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
(label) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
(label) Grow; increase.
(label)
(rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
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 a verb accelerate
is (label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.As an adjective accelerate
is (rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.accelerate
English
Verb
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Synonyms
* advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed upAntonyms
* decelerate * retardDerived terms
* accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating forceAdjective
- ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.
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.