Repeating vs Null - What's the difference?
repeating | null |
That repeats; repetitive.
Of a firearm: capable of firing multiple times without needing recharging.
(mathematics) Of a decimal: recurring.
repetition
* 1779 , Edward Capell, ?John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare
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 repeating and null
is that repeating is repetition while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb repeating
is .As an adjective repeating
is that repeats; repetitive.repeating
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings , cannot be conceiv'd
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.