Earthquake vs Null - What's the difference?
earthquake | null |
A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
* 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
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 earthquake and null
is that earthquake is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.earthquake
English
(wikipedia earthquake)Noun
(en noun)- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.
Synonyms
* earthdin * quake * seism * temblor * terremote * tremblor * tremorDerived terms
* earthquake-proneSee also
* aftershock * earthquake engineering * fault line * Richter scale * seismic * seismograph * seismologist * seismology * tremor * tsunaminull
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.