Brownout vs Null - What's the difference?
brownout | null |
A period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination
Temporary dimming of vision, usually with a brown hue and accompanied by loss of peripheral vision or tunnel vision.
Temporary closing of a fire station, usually due to budget restrictions.
a power outage during the day; distinguished from a blackout, which occurs at night
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 brownout and null
is that brownout is a period of low alternating current line voltage, causing a reduction in illumination while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.brownout
English
(wikipedia brownout)Alternative forms
* brown out, brown-outNoun
(en noun)- When demand for electricity exceeds the available supply, a brownout occurs.
- On rising suddenly from her chair she experienced a brownout and had to sit down again quickly.
- Fire departments across the country have been forced to rely on rolling brownouts because of the recession.
Usage notes
A (rolling brownout) describes a deliberate reduction in voltage (for sense 1) or of firefighting (for sense 3) in multiple service areas at staggered times.Synonyms
* grayout, greyoutCoordinate terms
* blackoutSee also
* whiteoutnull
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.