Fulcrum vs Null - What's the difference?
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(mechanics) The support about which a lever pivots.
* It is possible to flick food across the table using your fork as a lever and your finger as a fulcrum .
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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 proper noun fulcrum
is (military) nato code name for the soviet mig-29 aircraft.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.fulcrum
English
(wikipedia fulcrum)Noun
(en-noun)Bad Machinery
- MILDRED: Archimedes said give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I will move the world.
- CHARLOTTE: Yeah she said that twaddle eight or nine times.
citation, passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}
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.