Pontoon vs Null - What's the difference?
pontoon | null |
(military) A flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a temporary bridge.
A floating structure supporting a bridge or dock.
A box used to raise a sunken vessel.
A float of a seaplane.
(card games) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.
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 pontoon and null
is that pontoon is (military) a flat-bottomed boat used as a support for a temporary bridge or pontoon can be (card games) a card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.pontoon
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ponton, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (floating structure used as a bridge) pontoon bridgeEtymology 2
Probably from .Noun
(-)Synonyms
* (card game) vingt-et-unSee also
* baccarat * blackjack * twenty-onenull
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.