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Sinter vs Null - What's the difference?

sinter | null |

As nouns the difference between sinter and null

is that sinter is dogcatcher while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

sinter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geology) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
  • * 1883 June, John Magens Mello, , Volume 23,
  • That water at a high temperature can hold quartz in solution is well illustrated by the deposits of silicious sinter , thrown down by thermal springs,
  • * 1913 , David Paul Gooding, , Chapter V,
  • It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter .
  • A mass formed by sintering.
  • * 2008 , John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering , page 55,
  • Consider a copper sinter' material with spherical ' sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).
  • A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.
  • * 1980 , '', in ''Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study ,
  • Most, if not all, metals may be sintered .
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  • 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 ----