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Repeater vs Null - What's the difference?

repeater | null |

As nouns the difference between repeater and null

is that repeater is (electronics) an electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

repeater

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (electronics) An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
  • (firearms) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
  • In ufology and similar studies, a person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
  • Note – this term is more commonly used by skeptics of the paranormal, and implies that the witness lacks credibility.
  • A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
  • (US) One who votes more than once at an election.
  • A repeating decimal.
  • (nautical) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
  • Anagrams

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    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 ----