Beacon vs Null - What's the difference?
beacon | null |
A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
* Gay
(nautical) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
:* A post or buoy placed over a shoal or bank to warn vessels of danger; also a signal mark on land. (FM 55-501).
A high hill or other easily distinguishable object near the shore which can serve as guidance for seafarers.
That which gives notice of danger.
* Shakespeare
To act as a beacon.
To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
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 beacon and null
is that beacon is a signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb beacon
is to act as a beacon.beacon
English
(wikipedia beacon)Noun
(en noun)- No flaming beacons cast their blaze afar.
- Modest doubt is called / The beacon of the wise.
Derived terms
* aerobeacon * day beacon * radio beacon * web beaconSee also
* cairn * leading mark * navigation aid * navigation mark * radar reflector * sea mark, seamarkVerb
(en verb)- That beacons the darkness of heaven. — Campbell.
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.