Counterbalance vs Null - What's the difference?
counterbalance | null |
(literally) A weight that is put in opposition to an equal weight so it keeps that in balance.
(figuratively) A force or influence that balances, checks or limits an opposite one.
To apply weight in order to balance an opposing weight.
* Boyle
To apply force in order to balance an opposite one.
(figuratively) To match or equal in effect, but acting in opposition
* Sir W. Hamilton
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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 counterbalance and null
is that counterbalance is (literally) a weight that is put in opposition to an equal weight so it keeps that in balance while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb counterbalance
is to apply weight in order to balance an opposing weight.counterbalance
English
(counterweight)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* counterpoise * counterweightVerb
(counterbalanc)- ''Big brother counterbalances his two siblings to the pound.
- The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder.
- ''Arm wrestling is undecided as long as the opponents counterbalance each-other
- ''The defenders' knowledge of the terrain roughly counterbalances the attackers' superior equipment
- The study of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature.
- A considerable effort has been made in these volumes to counterbalance this activity by introducing the student to the plants as living entities with a "life of their own," as Spruce put it.
Synonyms
* counteract * counterpoise * counterweight * equiponderate * offsetAntonyms
* outweigh * overcome * overpowernull
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.