Vernier vs Null - What's the difference?
vernier | null |
A secondary scale with finer graduations than the primary scale of a measuring device; the vernier measures between graduations of the larger scale.
A secondary control input with finer control than the primary, or coarse, input; for example the vernier frequency tuning knob on a radio.
(physics) A secondary system of force application for the attitude control of a spacecraft; for example a .
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 vernier and null
is that vernier is a secondary scale with finer graduations than the primary scale of a measuring device; the vernier measures between graduations of the larger scale while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.vernier
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(en noun)See also
* calipers * noniusAnagrams
* English eponymsnull
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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.