Knocking vs Null - What's the difference?
knocking | null |
An act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced
* {{quote-book, year=1893, author=W. B. Yeats, title=The Celtic Twilight, chapter=, edition=
, passage=These strange openings and closings and knockings were warnings and reminders from the spirits who attend the dying. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Carson Jay Lee, title=Oswald Langdon, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There was no response to continued knockings . }}
* {{quote-news, year=2006, date=July 21, author=Keith Harris, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Bob Mehr, Miles Raymer, Neil Tesser, title=The Treatment, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Recorded live to CD with new instrumentation--artillery shells, tuned suspension cables, boxes filled with springs--and deemphasized guitar parts, it's a beautiful collection of echoes and whispers, drones and knockings , with a gently swelling sense of the sinister. }}
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 knocking and null
is that knocking is an act in which something is knocked on, or the sound thus produced while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb knocking
is .knocking
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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.