Thunderbolt vs Null - What's the difference?
thunderbolt | null |
A flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder.
(figuratively) An event that is terrible, horrific or unexpected.
* Dryden
Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination.
* Hakewill
(soccer) A very powerful shot.
* {{quote-news
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, date=February 5
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(paleontology) A belemnite, or thunderstone.
(heraldiccharge) A charge in the form of two joined bundles with four rays of lightning emerging from them, resembling the thunderbolt of Jupiter.
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 thunderbolt and null
is that thunderbolt is a flash of lightning accompanied by a crash of thunder while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.thunderbolt
English
Noun
(en noun)- the Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war
- He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication.
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Derived terms
* thunderbolt beetleSee also
* thunderclapnull
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.