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Spinning vs Null - What's the difference?

spinning | null |

As nouns the difference between spinning and null

is that spinning is the motion of something that spins while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective spinning

is rapidly rotating on an axis; whirling.

As a verb spinning

is .

spinning

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Rapidly rotating on an axis; whirling.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
  • , author=Frank Fish, George Lauder , title=Not Just Going with the Flow , volume=101, issue=2, page=114 , magazine= citation , passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning , cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that spins.
  • * 2005 , Geoffrey Hemphill, Nico and the Unseen - A Voyage Into the Fourth Dimension (page 258)
  • these uncontrollable spinnings of the head
  • The process of converting fibres into yarn or thread.
  • Indoor cycling.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * spinning frame * spinning jenny * spinning mule * spinning wheel ----

    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 ----