单词 | nulling |
释义 | nullingn.1ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation anientizement1429 deletiona1513 extincting1513 annihilment1526 exterminion1528 nulling1538 annihilation1541 exterminationc1550 nullity1555 annihilating1577 massacre1595 extinguishment1599 extinct1606 expunction1615 extinction1615 discreationa1628 nullificationa1631 nullifying1640 decreation1647 defacedness1668 extinguishinga1676 erasurea1794 exterminating1796 blotting out1808 naughting1913 wipeout1968 1538 in J. Imrie et al. Burgh Court Bk. Selkirk (1960) 199 Under the payne of forfutting and nulling thaim of thair burgeschip. 1596–7 in A. I. Cameron Warrender Papers (1932) II. 308 The nulling of the commission of the commissionaries of the generall assemblye be his majestie and consell. 1607 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials (1833) II. 534 The justice is nocht judge to the nulling of hoirnings. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 78 The unbilleting of Souldiers and nulling of Martiall Law in times of Peace. a1687 H. More Contin. Remark. Stories (1689) 446 Which is a perfect dissolution or nulling of the True..Religion. 1697 J. Ayloffe Dream of Caball in Poems on Affairs of State I. i. 149 Lest they, I say, should your great Secrets scent, And you oppose in nulling Parliament. 2. Science. The cancelling out of an effect, or of the difference between two signals, esp. by a process of counterbalancing; the reduction of a signal or effect to zero. ΚΠ 1963 Science 25 Oct. 460/1 We rotate the head until there are no differences in the sound detected by the two ears. This ‘nulling’ is possible only because the listener's movement produces systematic changes in the binaural differences. 1974 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 337 282 Measurements of the rotation θ..are made by a nulling procedure. 1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 568/2 This nulling appears to represent a cessation of the fundamental processes of pulsar emission. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nullingn.2 = knurling n.1 ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration specifically in relief > [noun] > others rosea1425 steeple1517 emblema1842 nulling1851 1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati xiii. 245 All kinds of turning used by cabinet makers, including nulling of every pattern, furnished at the shortest notice. 1876 W. Papworth Gwilt's Encycl. Archit. (rev. ed.) Gloss. 1265 Knulling, a moulding nearly flat, and similar in character to a bead and reel ornament. It is chiefly used in cabinet work. 1914 H. D. Eberlein & A. McClure Pract. Bk. Period Furnit. 63 Nulling, made up chiefly of beading, cabling and hollows, is often used to ornament the bulbous legs of Jacobean furniture. 1934 J. Gloag Eng. Furnit. v. 86 The edges of tables and desks were scalloped with nulling, heavily gilded. 1936 C. H. Hayward Eng. Period Furnit. ii. 33 The carved flutes partly filled with nullings are a feature that was used considerably in Elizabethan times. 1994 Pract. Craft Sept. 33/4 Other names for nulling or lobing and knurling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nullingadj. Science. That nulls or exactly counterbalances something; that cancels something out. Also: involving such cancellation. ΚΠ 1950 Proc. Royal Soc. A. 202 109 In a potentiometer or other nulling circuit such e.m.f.'s are in principle compensated for by commuting the circuits. 1970 Single Sidband for Radio Amateur (Amer. Radio Relay League) (ed. 5) ix. 239/1 Two piston trimmers are used for the nulling capacitors. 1998 New Scientist 10 Oct. 22/2 Nulling interferometry..is designed to suppress the glare of starlight that would otherwise hide such planets from view. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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