Triple vs Null - What's the difference?
triple | null |
Made up of three related elements, often matching
Three times the quantity
Designed for three users
Folded in three; composed of three layers
Having three aspects; very ambiguous.
(music) Of time, three times as fast as very fast.
(obsolete) One of three; third.
(informal) A drink with three portions of alcohol.
(US) A hamburger with three patties.
(baseball) A three-base hit
(curling) A takeout shot in which three stones are removed from play.
(mathematics, computing) A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.
To multiply by three
(baseball) To get a three-base hit
To become three times as large
To serve or operate as (something), in addition to two other functions.
* 1982 , Popular Mechanics, Best tools for your electronics workbench (volume 157, number 1, page 106, January 1982)
* 2011 , Mel LeCompte, The Tee Cotton Bowl
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 triple and null
is that triple is hat trick while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb triple
is .triple
English
(wikipedia triple)Adjective
(-)- The triple markings on this vase are quite unique.
- Give me a triple serving of mashed potatoes.
- a triple room
- a triple meaning
- (Shakespeare)
Noun
(en noun)- I've had a hard day, make that a triple .
- I'd like a triple with cheese.
- The shortstop hit a triple to lead off the ninth.
Derived terms
* triplestoreVerb
(tripl)- The company tripled their earnings per share over last quarter.
- The batter tripled into the gap.
- Our earnings have tripled in the last year.
- Radio Shack's All-Purpose Crimper/Cutter ($9.95) doubles as a wire stripper and triples as a bolt cutter.
- Examination rooms contain shelves overstuffed with football helmets, autographed equipment and even rugby gear. If the office doubles as a mini-museum, it also triples as a minichapel.
See also
* treble * triple jump * triple sec * triple goddess (coefficient)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.