Porous vs Null - What's the difference?
porous | null |
Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
(Of legislation) full of loopholes
(figuratively) With many gaps.
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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
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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 porous
is full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.porous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Sponges are porous so they can filter water while trapping food.
- Concrete is porous , so water will slowly filter through it.
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Synonyms
* (full of holes ): permeablenull
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.