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Transom vs Null - What's the difference?

transom | null |

As nouns the difference between transom and null

is that transom is a crosspiece over a door; a lintel while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

transom

Noun

(en noun)
  • A crosspiece over a door; a lintel.
  • A horizontal dividing bar in a window.
  • A transom window.
  • (nautical) Any of several transverse structural members in a ship, especially at the stern; a thwart.
  • (nautical) The flat or nearly flat stern of a boat or ship.
  • The horizontal beam on a cross or gallows.
  • (figuratively, usually, attributively) Items that have arrived over the transom.
  • We are overwhelmed with transom resumes.
    They only met the deadline by working most of the night and making a transom filing.

    Synonyms

    * (small hinged window above door) fanlight

    Derived terms

    * over the transom * transom window, a hinged glassed frame above such a crossbar

    Anagrams

    *

    See also

    * fortochka

    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 ----