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Mechanics vs Null - What's the difference?

mechanics | null |

As nouns the difference between mechanics and null

is that mechanics is (physics) the branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on material objects with mass while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

mechanics

English

Noun

(-)
  • (physics) The branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on material objects with mass
  • The design and construction of machines.
  • (writing) Spelling and punctuation.
  • operation in general; workings
  • the mechanics of a board game
  • English plurals
  • Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * aeromechanics * analytic mechanics * biomechanics * body mechanics * celestial mechanics * classical mechanics * electromechanics * fluid mechanics * gas mechanics * hereditary mechanics * hydromechanics * magnetomechanics * matrix mechanics * micromechanics * molecular mechanics * Newtonian mechanics * nonquantum mechanics * nonrelativistic mechanics * particle mechanics * quantum mechanics * rational mechanics * relativistic mechanics * rock mechanics * soil mechanics * statistical mechanics * wave mechanics

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    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 ----