Stanchion vs Null - What's the difference?
stanchion | null |
A vertical pole, post, or support.
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 27. p. 268.
*:He staggers against a stanchion , trips over a rope, and tumbles into the space between the quay and the steel plates of the freighter.
A framework of such posts, used to secure or confine cattle.
To erect stanchions, or equip something with stanchions.
To confine by means of stanchions, typically used for cattle.
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 stanchion and null
is that stanchion is a vertical pole, post, or support while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb stanchion
is to erect stanchions, or equip something with stanchions.stanchion
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(wikipedia stanchion)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)References
*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.