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Wireline vs Null - What's the difference?

wireline | null |

As nouns the difference between wireline and null

is that wireline is (telecommunications) a landline while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

wireline

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (telecommunications) A landline
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 26, author=The Associated Press, title=Homes and Treasuries Give Investors a Jolt, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=AT&T rose 16 cents, to $36.79, after the company reported a 17 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit and growth in wireless subscribers and in its regional wireline businesses. }}
  • (oil drilling) A wire that runs from a drill rig down into the drill hole to support a deadload or other downhole tool
  • *{{quote-book, 2005, William C. Lyons & Gary J. Plisga, Standard Handbook of Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering, isbn=0750677856, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=h-DRjBCI08QC&pg=PA5-IA376&dq=%2Bwirelines, page=5, edition=2nd ed.
  • , passage=Most manufacturers of wirelines will construct specially designed armored electrical conductor wirelines for unique downhole operations.}}

    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 ----