Recapture vs Null - What's the difference?
recapture | null |
The act of capturing again.
:The recapture of the escaped prisoner made the news.
That which is captured back; a prize retaken.
to capture something for a second or subsequent time, especially after a loss
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=September 7
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Moldova 0-5 England
, work=BBC Sport
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 recapture and null
is that recapture is the act of capturing again while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb recapture
is to capture something for a second or subsequent time, especially after a loss.recapture
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en-verb)- The warden hoped to recapture the escaped prisoners before they reached the town.
- ''New engine designs permit the vehicle to recapture the kinetic energy lost through braking
citation, page= , passage=Gerrard was replaced by Michael Carrick at the start of the second half and a sloppy passage of play followed in which England struggled to recapture the momentum and rhythm of their earlier work.}}
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.