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Tracker vs Null - What's the difference?

tracker | null |

As nouns the difference between tracker and null

is that tracker is one who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

tracker

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
  • In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.
  • (computing) A type of computer software for composing music by aligning samples on parallel timelines.
  • * 2004 , "dilvie", new.scene.org'' (on newsgroup ''alt.music.mods )
  • Trackers have broken out of the demoscene, are are(SIC) now in use by thousands of professional musicians. It's not uncommon to hear about people using trackers on DJ forums, and electronic music production communities
  • * 2008 , Karen Collins, Game sound
  • Although there were a few game companies outside the Amiga scene that used a tracker format (Epic Mega-Games, for instance), the majority used the better-supported MIDI.
  • (computing) A musician who writes music in a tracker.
  • * 1999 , "Adrian Dunn", Re: Using a scanned picture in your demo'' (on newsgroup ''comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos )
  • You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.
  • (computing) A computer program that monitors something.
  • # (file sharing) Server software that coordinates peers in the BitTorrent protocol.
  • (finance) A tracker mortgage.
  • Derived terms

    * startracker

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----