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Cylinder vs Null - What's the difference?

cylinder | null |

As nouns the difference between cylinder and null

is that cylinder is (geometry) a surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

cylinder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geometry) A surface created by projecting a closed two-dimensional curve along an axis intersecting the plane of the curve.
  • When the two-dimensional curve is a circle, the cylinder is called a circular cylinder''. When the axis is perpendicular to the plane of the curve, the cylinder is called a ''right cylinder''. In non-mathematical usage, both ''right'' and ''circular are usually implied.
  • (geometry) A solid figure bounded by a cylinder and two parallel planes intersecting the cylinder.
  • Any object in the form of a circular cylinder.
  • * 1898 — , The War of the Worlds Ch.4
  • A big greyish rounded bulk, the size, perhaps, of a bear, was rising slowly and painfully out of the cylinder .
  • A cylindrical cavity or chamber in a mechanism, such as the counterpart to a piston found in a piston-driven engine.
  • A container in the form of a cylinder with rounded ends for storing pressurized gas.
  • An early form of phonograph recording, made on a wax cylinder.
  • The part of a revolver that contains chambers for the cartridges.
  • (computing) The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
  • See also

    * (wikipedia "cylinder")

    Derived terms

    * cylinder head * cylindrical * fire on all cylinders ----

    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 ----