Caisson vs Null - What's the difference?
caisson | null |
(engineering) An enclosure, from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc.
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA, p. 213:
The gate across the entrance to a dry dock.
(nautical) A floating tank that can be submerged, attached to an underwater object and then pumped out to lift the object by buoyancy; a camel.
(military) A two-wheeled, horse-drawn military vehicle used to carry ammunition (and a coffin at funerals).
(military) A large box to hold ammunition.
(military) A chest filled with explosive materials, used like a mine.
(architecture) A coffer.
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 caisson and null
is that caisson is (engineering) an enclosure, from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.caisson
English
(wikipedia caisson)Noun
(en noun)- Caissons were enclosed dry chambers built on river beds to facilitate the construction of bridge piers.
Derived terms
* caisson diseaseAnagrams
* * ----null
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.