Phonograph vs Null - What's the difference?
phonograph | null |
Literally, a device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe.
(British, historical) A device that records or plays sound from cylinder records.
(North America) A turntable, especially an early, archaic record player.
(dated) A character or symbol used to represent a sound, especially one used in phonography.
(dated) To record for playback by phonograph.
(dated) To transcribe into phonographic symbols.
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 phonograph and null
is that phonograph is literally, a device that captures sound waves onto an engraved archive; a lathe while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb phonograph
is (dated) to record for playback by phonograph.phonograph
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (cylinder player) talking phonograph * (turntable) gramophone (British), record playerDerived terms
* phonograph recordVerb
(en verb)External links
* (wikipedia "phonograph")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.