Unfold vs Null - What's the difference?
unfold | null |
To undo a folding.
* Herbert
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 To turn out; to happen; to develop.
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To reveal.
* , I.v.
To open (anything covered or closed); to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development.
* (William Shakespeare)
To release from a fold or pen.
(computing, programming) In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.
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 unfold and null
is that unfold is (computing|programming) in functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb unfold
is to undo a folding.unfold
English
Verb
- Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns.
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- Memento unfolds over 22 scenes—or, more accurately, 22 strands of time, the main strand (in color) moving backward in increments, and another strand (in black and white) going forward, though the two overlap profoundly.
- Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold .
- Unfold the passion of my love.
Antonyms
* foldNoun
(en noun)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.