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jumper | null |

As nouns the difference between jumper and null

is that jumper is someone or something that jumps, eg a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing or jumper can be (chiefly|british|australian) a woolen sweater or pullover while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb jumper

is to connect with an electrical jumper.

jumper

English

Etymology 1

See jump.

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
  • A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire .
  • A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
  • A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
  • A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers.
  • (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
  • The larva of the cheese fly.
  • One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
  • (horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
  • Derived terms
    * high-jumper, long-jumper, triple-jumper

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To connect with an electrical jumper.
  • Etymology 2

    From the term ; see also jibba.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, British, Australian) A woolen sweater or pullover.
  • A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
  • A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children.
  • (usually as jumpers ) Rompers.
  • 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 ----