What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Reflow vs Null - What's the difference?

reflow | null |

As nouns the difference between reflow and null

is that reflow is (computing) the process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements may have changed while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb reflow

is to flow back again.

reflow

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To flow back again.
  • The sea flows and reflows .
  • (transitive, chiefly, engineering) To cause to flow again, to remelt.
  • Reflowing solder is a common form of rework in the manufacture of printed circuit boards: you heat up the solder and it flows where it should have flowed the first time.
  • (transitive, computing, wordprocessing) To modify the layout of text around other objects in a document.
  • * 2008 , Trish Meyer, Chris Meyer, Creating motion graphics with After Effects
  • The latter option will reflow text to even out the spacing within each paragraph.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) The process of recreating the layout of a document when some of its component elements may have changed.
  • Anagrams

    *

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----