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Foreshot vs Null - What's the difference?

foreshot | null |

As nouns the difference between foreshot and null

is that foreshot is the spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

foreshot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The spirits that first come over when an alcoholic liquid is distilled
  • (chiefly, sport)
  • Foreshots knock the ball forward.
  • (geology)
  • * 1997 , Proceedings of the Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems , volume 2:
  • Twelve foreshot and twelve backshot records at varying offsets were acquired for each geophone setup to achieve 24 fold duplicity.

    Coordinate terms

    * midshot, backshot

    References

    * OED 2nd edition (online)

    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 ----