Siphon vs Null - What's the difference?
siphon | null |
A bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, in which hydrostatic pressure exerted due to the force of gravity moves liquid from one reservoir to another.
a soda siphon
(biology) a tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants.
to transfer (liquid) by means of a siphon.
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 siphon and null
is that siphon is a bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, in which hydrostatic pressure exerted due to the force of gravity moves liquid from one reservoir to another while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb siphon
is to transfer (liquid) by means of a siphon.siphon
English
(wikipedia siphon)Alternative forms
* syphonNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* siphonicVerb
(en verb)- He used a rubber tube to siphon petrol from the car's fuel tank.
See also
* seep * sip ----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.