Folding vs Null - What's the difference?
folding | null |
Designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.
The action of folding; a fold.
* Addison
* 2007 , Greg Patent, ?Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey
The keeping of sheep in enclosures on arable land, etc.
(computing, programming) : a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
(geology) the deformation of the Earth's crust in response to slow lateral compression.
(slang) Paper money, as opposed to coins.
* 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 123:
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 folding and null
is that folding is the action of folding; a fold while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective folding
is designed to fold; as a folding bed, a folding bicycle, a folding chair, etc.As a verb folding
is .folding
English
(wikipedia folding)Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- The lower foldings of the vest.
- Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
- He has written twelve of these fat sex and sword-play historical novels and every damn one of them has been on the best-seller lists. He must have made plenty of the folding .
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* folding stuffSee also
* (commonslite) *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.