Tentacle vs Null - What's the difference?
tentacle | null |
An elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid.
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* 1897,
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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 tentacle and null
is that tentacle is an elongated, boneless, flexible organ or limb of some animals, such as the octopus and squid while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.tentacle
English
(wikipedia tentacle)Noun
(en noun)20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- With one blow of the axe, Captain Nemo cut this formidable tentacle , that slid wriggling down the ladder.
- The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles , immediately under the mouth.
- Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles .
Derived terms
* tentacularnull
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.