Torpedo vs Null - What's the difference?
torpedo | null |
(military) A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
A fish having wings that generate , a kind of electric ray.
(regional) A submarine sandwich.
(archaic, military) A naval mine.
(obsolete, military) An explosive device buried underground and set off remotely, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry; a land torpedo
(slang) A professional gunman or assassin.
(rail transport, US) a small explosive device attached to the top of the rail to provide an audible warning when a train passes over it
A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
To send a torpedo, usually from a submarine, that explodes below the waterline of the target ship.
To sink a ship with one of more torpedoes.
To undermine or destroy any endeavor with a stealthy, powerful attack.
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 torpedo and null
is that torpedo is torpedo (underwater weapon) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.torpedo
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* (rail transport) detonator (UK)Derived terms
* torpedo roll * land torpedo * spar torpedoVerb
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(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.