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Battery vs Null - What's the difference?

battery | null |

As nouns the difference between battery and null

is that battery is a coordinated group of electrochemical cells, each of which produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances () while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

battery

Noun

(batteries)
  • A coordinated group of electrochemical cells, each of which produces electricity by a chemical reaction between two substances ().
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  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}
  • (legal) The crime or tort of intentionally striking another person.
  • A coordinated group of artillery.
  • An array of similar things.
  • Schoolchildren take a battery of standard tests to measure their progress.
  • A set of small cages where hens are kept for the purpose of farming their eggs.
  • (baseball) The catcher and the pitcher together
  • (chess) Two or more major pieces on the same rank, file, or diagonal
  • The state of a firearm when it is possible to be fired.
  • Derived terms

    * assault and battery * battery-backed * battery hen * battery-operated * battery power * battery-powered (-)

    See also

    * accumulator * assault * replacement battery

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----