Bunds vs Null - What's the difference?
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(bund)
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A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
(pond in which fish are stored for breeding).
To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.
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 bunds
is (bund).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.bunds
English
Verb
(head)bund
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) (term), from (etyl).Noun
(en noun)- The most important of these [secondary containment] provisions are bunds''', which are enclosures capable of holding liquids that may escape from the vessels and pipes within the '''bund wall. — Second progress report on the Buncefield investigation [http://www.buncefieldinvestigation.gov.uk/reports/report2.pdf]
Verb
(en verb)- Plant room floors are generally bunded and/or waterproofed to contain any leaks or spillages of liquids and fluids from faulty tanks, plant or pipe work.
RIW Ltd. Waterproofing Products
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.