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Underbuilding vs Null - What's the difference?

underbuilding | null |

As nouns the difference between underbuilding and null

is that underbuilding is a substructure; foundation; infrastructure while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

underbuilding

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A substructure; foundation; infrastructure.
  • *1900 , Scotland. Courts, The Scottish law reporter :
  • It appears from the evidence that although the Dean of Guild authorities considered the defective underbuilding to have been sufficient to warrant the demolition of the wall, it must have otherwise been in a weak and decayed condition.
  • *1904 , Brysson Cunningham, A treatise on the principles and practice of dock engineering :
  • The rubble concrete underbuilding' has a uniform thickness of 5 feet, where the depth is less than 10 feet, but for greater depths the ' underbuilding is 6 feet thick at the top.

    Synonyms

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    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 ----