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Carplane vs Null - What's the difference?

carplane | null |

As nouns the difference between carplane and null

is that carplane is (science fiction) a vehicle that can drive on land like a car or fly like an aeroplane while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

carplane

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (science fiction) A vehicle that can drive on land like a car or fly like an aeroplane.
  • * 1951 , Alfred Elton Van Vogt, The weapon shops of Isher
  • Outside Bedrock headed for a carplane stop in a meditative mood.
  • * 2002 , David M. Newman, Elizabeth Grauerholz, Sociology of families
  • Unlike some other fictional portrayals of future family life — which simply place traditional family structures in a high-tech futuristic setting of carplanes , fully automated appliances, interplanetary civilizations, and robot servants...
  • * 2009 , Caroline Nixon, Michael Tomlinson, Kid's Box 6 Pupil's Book, Volume 6
  • The sides of the carplane will open by moving slowly down under the floor of the car. There won't be any maps and we'll never get lost because carplanes will always know where to go.

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    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 ----