Fiber vs Null - What's the difference?
fiber | null |
(countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
(uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
(textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
Dietary fiber.
(figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
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 fiber and null
is that fiber is (countable) a single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.fiber
English
Alternative forms
* fibre (chiefly British)Noun
(en noun)- The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber .
- Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
- ''Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber
- The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber .
- ''Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π
Derived terms
{{der3, dietary fiber , fiber bundle , fiberboard , fibered , fiberglass , fiberize , fiber optics , fiberscope , fibril, fibrilar , fibrin, fibrinous , fibrinogen , fibrinolysin , fibroblast , fibrocyte , fibroid , fibroma , fibrosis , fibrositis , fibrous , fibrovascular , microfiber , moral fiber , natural fiber , synthetic fiber}}Anagrams
* * ----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.