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Pane vs Null - What's the difference?

pane | null |

As nouns the difference between pane and null

is that pane is an individual sheet of glass in a window while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As an adjective null is

having no validity, "null and void.

As a verb null is

to nullify; to annul.

pane

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An individual sheet of glass in a window.
  • (computing, graphical user interface) A layer in the build-up of a GUI.
  • A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
  • A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
  • One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
  • (architecture) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
  • An octagonal tower is said to have eight panes .
  • A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
  • One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
  • One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.
  • (Webster 1913)

    Synonyms

    * window pane

    Anagrams

    * * * ----

    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 ----