Rebound vs Null - What's the difference?
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The recoil of an object bouncing off another.
A return to health or well-being; a recovery.
An effort to recover from a setback.
A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently-ended romantic relationship.
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(sports) The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player, the crossbar or goalpost.
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(basketball) An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player.
To bound or spring back from a force.
* Sir Isaac Newton
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To give back an echo.
(figuratively) To jump up or get back up again.
To send back; to reverberate.
* Dryden
(rebind)
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 rebound and null
is that rebound is the recoil of an object bouncing off another while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb rebound
is to bound or spring back from a force or rebound can be (rebind).rebound
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) rebondir.Noun
(en noun)- I am on the rebound .
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Verb
(en verb)- Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another.
citation, page= , passage=Martin Kelly fired in a dangerous cross and the Hearts defender looked on in horror as the ball rebounded off him and into the net.}}
- (Alexander Pope)
- Silenus sung; the vales his voice rebound , / And carry to the skies the sacred sound.
See also
* bound (verb)Etymology 2
see rebindVerb
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*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.
