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Pahoehoe vs Null - What's the difference?

pahoehoe | null |

As nouns the difference between pahoehoe and null

is that pahoehoe is a form of lava flow of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a smooth or ropey surface it is one of two chief forms of lava flow emitted from volcanoes of the hawaiian type, the other form being aa while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

pahoehoe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A form of lava flow of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a smooth or ropey surface. It is one of two chief forms of lava flow emitted from volcanoes of the Hawaiian type, the other form being aa.
  • * 1859 , R. C. Haskell, American journal of science and arts , series XXVIII:
  • We [...] saw ‘pahoihoi ’ or solid lava forming, and also ‘aa’ or clinkers.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 44:
  • The twisty, ropy kind that personifies flow – all congealed motion – is called pahoehoe .

    See also

    * aa ----

    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 ----