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Clench vs Null - What's the difference?

clench | null |

As nouns the difference between clench and null

is that clench is tight grip while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb clench

is to squeeze; to grip or hold tightly.

clench

English

Noun

(es)
  • Tight grip.
  • (engineering) A seal that is applied to formed thin-wall bushings.
  • A local chapter of the (Church of the SubGenius) parody religion.
  • * 1989 , Ted Schultz, The Fringes of Reason (page 210)
  • And perhaps most innovative of all, Drummond and Stang pushed for a policy of clench autonomy
  • * 2003 , Peter Knight, Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia (page 170)
  • Every SubGenius clench is required to have a member who does not believe
  • * 2012 , George D. Chryssides, Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements (page 95)
  • Originality is encouraged, and some clenches have devised their own distinctive organizational names

    Verb

    (es)
  • To squeeze; to grip or hold tightly.
  • He clenched his fist in anger.
  • To move two parts of something against each other
  • Bruxism is clenching the jaws.

    Synonyms

    * clasp * clutch

    Antonyms

    * unclench

    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 ----