Jettison vs Null - What's the difference?
jettison | null |
(uncountable) Collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon.
(countable) The action of jettisoning items.
To eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.
To let go or get rid of as being useless or defective; discard.
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 jettison and null
is that jettison is (uncountable) collectively, items that have been or are about to be ejected from a boat or balloon while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb jettison
is to eject from a boat, submarine, aircraft, spaceship or hot-air balloon, so as to lighten the load.jettison
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (items jettisoned): jetsamVerb
(en verb)- The ballooners had to jettison all of their sand bags to make it over the final hill.
- The jettisoning of fuel tanks .
Synonyms
* (to let go or get rid of as being useless) chuck, discard, ditch, dump, junk, lose, scrap, toss * See alsonull
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.