Forme vs Null - What's the difference?
forme | null |
(rare, or, archaic)
(historical, printing) One side of a sheet, comprising four quarto pages or two folio pages.
* 1978 , David A. Bloestein, Introduction'', , David A. Bloestein (editor), ''Parasitaster: Or, The Fawn ,
* 1994 , Jay L. Halio, Introduction'', Jay L. Halio (editor), , ''The First Quarto of King Lear ,
* 2011 , Eugene Giddens, How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text ,
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 a verb forme
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.forme
English
Noun
(en noun)page 47,
- Both these formes , with running titles intact, were retained to print sheet D of Q2.
page 21,
- Q2 was printed in twenty-two formes .
page 41,
- In casting off, the printing house would judge the length of a manuscript to determine both how many sheets would be needed, and what the divisions were between one forme' and another. (A '''forme''' is one side of a sheet: four quarto pages or two folio pages.) Because '''formes''' do not have many consecutive pages, estimates would be further broken down by page. If a quarto ' forme includes a putative page one, for instance, that side of the sheet would also include pages four, five, and eight.
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.