Tintinnabulation vs Null - What's the difference?
tintinnabulation | null |
A tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass.
* 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 20
The ringing of bells.
* 1849,
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 tintinnabulation and null
is that tintinnabulation is a tinkling sound, as of a bell or of breaking glass while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.tintinnabulation
English
Noun
(en noun)- Across the darkling meadows, from the heights of Hare, the tintinnabulation sounded mournfully, penetrating the curl-wreathed tympanums of Lady Parvula de Panzoust.
- Keeping time, time, time,
- In a sort of Runic rhyme,
- To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
- From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
- Bells, bells, bells —
- From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
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.