Launching vs Null - What's the difference?
launching | null |
The act by which something is launched; a launch.
* 2010 , Raymond Friedman, A History of Jet Propulsion, Including Rockets (page 123)
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 launching and null
is that launching is the act by which something is launched; a launch while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb launching
is .launching
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The launching of the Titanic.
- By 1940 they had conducted 25 successful launchings of A5 rockets, which reached 10 miles altitude and had a range of 12 miles.
Usage notes
* Launch'' suggests an event at a point in time. ''Launching suggests a process over time.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.