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Blinking vs Null - What's the difference?

blinking | null |

As nouns the difference between blinking and null

is that blinking is the act of something that blinks while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective blinking

is that or who blinks or blink.

As a verb blinking

is .

blinking

English

Adjective

(-)
  • That or who blinks or blink.
  • a blinking light
  • (UK, euphemism, slang) bloody
  • The blinking telly isn't working again.

    Synonyms

    * (that or who blink or blinks ): winking * (British slang ): blasted, blimming, blooming

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of something that blinks.
  • the steady blinkings of lights on the console

    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 ----