Cascade vs Null - What's the difference?
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A waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
* Cowper
* Longfellow
(figuratively) A stream or sequence of a thing or things occurring as if falling like a cascade.
A series of electrical (or other types of) components, the output of any one being connected to the input of the next; See also daisy chain
(juggling) A pattern typically performed with an odd number of props, where each prop is caught by the opposite hand.
(Internet) A sequence of absurd short messages posted to a newsgroup by different authors, each one responding to the most recent message and quoting the entire sequence to that point (with ever-increasing indentation).
* 1993 , "e.j.barker", Disassociation'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.slack )
* 1999 , "Anonymous", CYBERLIAR SCAVENGER HUNT 1999'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.test )
* 2004 , "swt", ARRR!'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.religion.kibology )
To fall as a waterfall or series of small waterfalls.
To arrange in a stepped series like a waterfall.
* 2001 , Greg M Perry, Sams teach yourself Microsoft Windows XP in 24 hours
To occur as a causal sequence.
(archaic, slang) To vomit.
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 proper noun cascade
is an administrative district in seychelles.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.cascade
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- Now murm'ring soft, now roaring in cascade .
- The silver brook pours the white cascade .
- The rise in serotonin levels sets off a cascade of chemical events'' — Richard M. Restak, ''The Secret Life of the Brain , Joseph Henry Press, 2001
- Don't you hate cascades ? I hate cascades!
- Spark a usenet cascade of no less than 300 replies.
- Anyway. I didn't mean to say that everyone who posts URLs is bad and wrong and should lose their breathing privileges. Just that I was getting weary of look-at-this-link posts, sort of like some people get sick of cascades .
Derived terms
* cascadable * (juggling) reverse cascade, French cascadeVerb
(cascad)- No matter how you tile or cascade the windows, each window's Minimize, Maximize, and Restore buttons work as usual.
Anagrams
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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.