Pointable vs Null - What's the difference?
pointable | null |
Capable of being pointed, or turned to face something.
* 1995 , David L. Verbyla, Satellite Remote Sensing of Natural Resources
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 an adjective pointable
is capable of being pointed, or turned to face something.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.pointable
English
Adjective
(-)- The SPOT satellite system is unique in that it has pointable mirrors which allow for flexible user-specified ground coverage. This high temporal resolution is important for monitoring dynamic events such as forest fires
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.