Kernel vs Null - What's the difference?
kernel | null |
The core, center, or essence of an object or system.
The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.
A single seed or grain, especially of corn or wheat.
(US) The stone of certain fruits, such as peaches or plums.
A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.
(computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.
(calculus) A function used to define an integral transform.
(mathematics) A set of pairs of a mapping's domain which are mapped to the same value.
(mathematics, algebra) Those elements, in the domain of a function, which the function maps to zero.
(mathematics, fuzzy set theory) The set of members of a fuzzy set that are fully included (i.e., whose grade of membership is 1).
(slang) The human clitoris.
* 2014 , Karyn Gerrard, Irene Preston, Lotchie Burton et al'', ''Summer Heat: 10 Spicy Romances That Sizzle
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 kernel and null
is that kernel is the core, center, or essence of an object or system while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.kernel
English
Noun
(en noun)- the kernel of an argument
- The Dirichlet kernel convolved with a function yields its Fourier series approximation.
- If a function is continuous then its kernel is a closed set.
- Using the blunt end of one of the vibraphone mallets, he pried open her folds. With the balled end of the other, he rhythmically rolled over her kernel .
Antonyms
* (computing) userland * (algebra) supportMeronyms
* (algebra) root, zeroDerived terms
* cokernel * kernel function * kernel hacker * kernel of truth * kernel space * kernelizationnull
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.