Sprocket vs Null - What's the difference?
sprocket | null |
A toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band.
(usually, in the plural) The tooth of such a wheel.
(architecture) A flared extension at the base of a sloped roof.
A (placeholder name) for an unnamed, unspecified, or hypothetical manufactured good or product.
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 sprocket and null
is that sprocket is a toothed wheel that enmeshes with a chain or other perforated band while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sprocket
English
(wikipedia sprocket)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Suppose we have a widget factory that produces 100 widgets per year, and a sprocket factory that produces 200 sprockets per year.
Usage notes
Although sprockets are sometimes referred to as gears , there is a technical distinction between the two: sprockets interact with chains, whereas gears interact with other gears.Synonyms
* (placeholder name) widgetDerived terms
* sprocket wheelSee also
* (wikipedia "sprocket")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.