Trailing vs Null - What's the difference?
trailing | null |
(rail transport, of points and crossovers) That converges in the direction of travel.
Fabric or other material that trails.
* Mary E. Wilkins, The Portion of Labor
* 2010 , Regina S. Baraban, Joseph F. Durocher, Successful Restaurant Design
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 trailing and null
is that trailing is fabric or other material that trails while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective trailing
is (rail transport|of points and crossovers) that converges in the direction of travel.As a verb trailing
is .trailing
English
Adjective
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* facingDerived terms
* trailing pointsVerb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- All too often, the spout of a soap dispenser rests over the counter and leaves trailings of soap that must be wiped up frequently if a clean appearance is to be maintained.
Anagrams
* *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.