Diphthong vs Null - What's the difference?
diphthong | null |
(phonetics) A complex vowel sound that begins with the sound of one vowel and ends with the sound of another vowel, in the same syllable.
(rare) A vowel digraph or ligature.
* 1854 , Robert Bigsby, Historical and Topographical Description of Repton, in the County of Derby , Woodfall and Kinder,
* 1860 , Joseph E. Worcester, An Elementary Dictionary of the English Language , A New Edition, Swan, Brewer, and Tileston (publishers),
* 1874 , Theophilus Dwight Hall, A Child’s First Latin Book , John Murray (publisher),
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 diphthong and null
is that diphthong is diphthong while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.diphthong
English
(wikipedia diphthong)Noun
(en noun)- For example: "ae", "au", "ou"
page 47:
- And he might have written the name, also, with the diphthong æ, as well as the single vowel, in the initial syllable, throughout all the preceding forms.
page 12:
- An improper diphthong has only one of the vowels sounded; as, ea'' in ''heat'', ''oa'' in ''coal .
page 3:
- The diphthong ae'' is sounded like ''?'' (§7); that is, it has the sound of ''ey'' in ''they .
Derived terms
* diphthongal * diphthongize * diphthongization * diphthongoidSee also
* glide * ligaturenull
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.