Eddy vs Null - What's the difference?
eddy | null |
A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
A circular current; a whirlpool.
* Dryden
* Addison
To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.
* Wordsworth
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 a proper noun eddy
is a diminutive of edward, edgar, edwin, or other male given names beginning with ed-.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.eddy
English
Noun
(eddies)- And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
- Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
See also
* countercurrent * dust devilVerb
- Eddying round and round they sink.
References
Anagrams
* (l) ----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.
