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Enfilade vs Null - What's the difference?

enfilade | null |

As nouns the difference between enfilade and null

is that enfilade is a line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb enfilade

is to rake something with gunfire.

enfilade

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.
  • gunfire directed along the length of a target
  • (architecture) a series of doors that provide a vista when open
  • Synonyms

    * flanking fire, raking fire

    Verb

    (enfilad)
  • to rake something with gunfire
  • *{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
  • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=30 citation , passage=It was by his order the shattered leading company flung itself into the houses when the Sin Verguenza were met by an enfilading volley as they reeled into the calle.}}

    Synonyms

    * flank ----

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----