Recce vs Null - What's the difference?
recce | null |
(British, Canada, military slang) Reconnaissance.
* 1953: J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross, The Weeping and the Laughter: A Chapter of Autobiography
* 2006: Vincent Tuckwood, Karaoke Criminals
* 2006: Steve Farndon, Escape Inc.
(British, Canada, military slang) Relating to reconnaissance.
* 1946: United States. Congress. American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
* 2006: Tony Holmes, US Marine Corps And RAAF Hornet Units of Operation Iraqi Freedom
* 2006: Hew Strachan, Big Wars And Small Wars: The British Army and the Lessons of War in the 20th Century
(British, Canada, military slang) Reconnoitre.
* 1961: John Sibly, You'll Walk to Mandalay: A Novel
* 2006: James Scott, The Sweaties
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 recce and null
is that recce is (british|canada|military slang) reconnaissance while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective recce
is (british|canada|military slang) relating to reconnaissance.As a verb recce
is (british|canada|military slang) reconnoitre.recce
English
Noun
(en noun)- Visiting the town on what in the more recent war we called a recce , she arranged a tennis-match with Dolly, guessing that the girl would be a bad loser.
- As he climbed into the car, his recce of the space behind the seats was still a little too obvious despite best efforts at subtlety.
- I'm afraid you two will have to go on a bit of a recce sometime soon.
Adjective
(-)- There appears a captured photograph showing cruiser or battleship recovery of an old Jap float recce plane.
- These record imagery from all three recce sensors - IR, EO and SAR.
- Reconnaissance (recce ) patrols were the most effective solution that the British and Indian Army designed to identify Japanese units and their intentions, as these could move through the jungle without alerting the enemy to their presence.
Verb
- I told the boys to stock up with all they could, and went back to the village to recce for someone to pay as per orders.
- Take him down there with Entry Two and recce first. If he can't confirm it, we pull out.
Synonyms
* (mainly US) reconnull
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.