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Mesh vs Null - What's the difference?

mesh | null |

As nouns the difference between mesh and null

is that mesh is a structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As verbs the difference between mesh and null

is that mesh is to fit in, to come together while null is to nullify; to annul.

As an adjective null is

having no validity, "null and void.

mesh

English

Noun

(wikipedia mesh) (es)
  • A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
  • * Shakespeare
  • a golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men
  • The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.
  • The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
  • A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.
  • (computer graphics) A polygon mesh.
  • Synonyms

    * (space and threads) lattice, network, net

    Derived terms

    * mesh number

    Verb

    (es)
  • To fit in, to come together.
  • The music meshed well with the visuals in that film.
  • To catch in a mesh.
  • (Surrey)

    Anagrams

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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 ----