Damper vs Null - What's the difference?
damper | null |
Something that damps or checks:
# A valve or movable plate in the flue or other part of a stove, furnace, etc., used to check or regulate the draught of air.
# A contrivance (sordine), as in a pianoforte, to deaden vibrations; or, as in other pieces of mechanism, to check some action at a particular time.
# Something that kills the mood.
#* (rfdate) W. Black
# A device that decreases the oscillations of a system.
(chiefly, Australia) Bread made from a basic recipe of flour, water, milk, and salt, but without yeast.
* 1827, , Two Years in New South Wales'', ii.190, quoted in G. A. Wilkes, ''A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms , 1978, ISBN 0-424-00034-2,
* (Rudyard Kipling), His Gift
(damp)
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 damper and null
is that damper is something that damps or checks: while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective damper
is (damp).damper
English
Noun
(en noun)- Nor did Sabrina?s presence seem to act as any damper at the modest little festivities.
- The farm-men usually bake their flour into flat cakes, which they call dampers , and cook these in the ashes.
Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* ----null
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.