Fallout vs Null - What's the difference?
fallout | null |
The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
The particles themselves.
A negative side effect; an undesirable or unexpected consequence.
(rare) A declined offer in a sales transaction when acceptance was presumed.
(rare) The person who declines such an offer.
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 fallout and null
is that fallout is radioactive fallout (radioactive particles that fall to the ground) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.fallout
English
Noun
(en noun)- On 26 April 1986 the reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant located in the Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area.
- Psychological fallout in the shadow of terrorism , title of an article by Dr. Abraham Twerski, M.D. in [http://www.jewishworldreview.com].
Derived terms
* area of militarily significant fallout * atmospheric fallout * borrower fallout * chemical fallout * fallout contour * fallout pattern * fallout prediction * fallout risk * fallout safe height of burst * fallout shelter * fallout winds * fallout wind vector plot * investor fallout * militarily significant fallout * nuclear fallout * radioactive fallout * soot falloutSynonyms
* (negative side effect) repercussionsSee also
* rainout * smokefallAnagrams
*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.