Duct vs Null - What's the difference?
duct | null |
A pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another.
An enclosure or channel for electrical cable runs.
(obsolete) Guidance; direction.
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 duct and null
is that duct is a pipe, tube or canal which carries gas or liquid from one place to another while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb duct
is to channel something through a duct (or series of ducts).duct
English
(Wikipedia)Noun
(en noun)- heating and air-conditioning ducts
- otherwise to express His care and love to mankind, viz., in giving and consigning to them His written word for a rule and constant director of life, not leaving them to the duct of their own inclinations. — Henry Hammond.
Derived terms
* ductal * ducted * ducting * ductor * duct tape * Mullerian ducts * Wolffian ductsnull
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.