Strake vs Null - What's the difference?
strake | null |
(obsolete) An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel.
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(aviation) A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
(nautical, archaic) A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501).
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(engineering) A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
(obsolete) A streak.
(obsolete) To stretch [akin to Old English: streccan].
(obsolete) (strike)
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 strake and null
is that strake is (obsolete) an iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb strake
is (obsolete) to stretch [akin to old english: streccan] or strake can be (obsolete) (strike).strake
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- (Spenser)
Usage notes
* (nautical) The planks or plates next to the keel are called the garboard strakes''; the next, or the heavy strakes at the bilge, are the ''bilge strakes''; the next, from the water line to the lower port sill, the ''wales''; and the upper parts of the sides, the ''sheer strakes .Verb
(strak)Etymology 2
Verb
(head)- (Spenser)
Anagrams
* * * * * *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.