Kludge vs Null - What's the difference?
kludge | null |
(electronics engineering) An improvised device, usually crudely constructed. Typically used to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design.
(general) Any construction or practice, typically inelegant, designed to solve a problem temporarily or expediently.
(computing) An amalgamated mass of totally unrelated parts forming a distressing whole.
to build or use a kludge
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 kludge and null
is that kludge is (electronics engineering) an improvised device, usually crudely constructed typically used to test the validity of a principle before doing a finished design while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb kludge
is to build or use a kludge.kludge
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(en noun) (wikipedia kludge)Usage notes
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See also
* workaround * quick fix * stopgap * bodgenull
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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.