Null vs. Nil — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Null and Nil
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Null
Having no legal force; invalid
Render a contract null and void.
Nil
Nothing; zero.
Null
Of no consequence, effect, or value; insignificant.
Nil
Nothing; zero.
Null
Amounting to nothing; absent or nonexistent
A null result.
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Nil
(sports) A score of zero
The football match ended in a nil-nil draw.
Null
(Mathematics) Of or relating to a set having no members or to zero magnitude.
Nil
No, not any.
Null
To make null.
Nil
Will not.
Null
Zero; nothing.
Nil
Nothing; of no account; worthless; - a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping.
Null
An instrument reading of zero.
Nil
A special value for a variable used in certain computer languages to mean no assigned value, to be distinguished from the value zero.
Null
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Nil
A quantity of no importance;
It looked like nothing I had ever seen before
Reduced to nil all the work we had done
We racked up a pathetic goose egg
It was all for naught
I didn't hear zilch about it
Null
Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
Null
Something that has no force or meaning.
Null
(computing) The null character; the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, which indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
Null
(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.
Null
One of the beads in nulled work.
Null
(statistics) The null hypothesis.
Null
Having no validity; "null and void".
Null
Insignificant.
Null
Absent or non-existent.
Null
(mathematics) Of the null set.
Null
(mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
Null
Causing a complete loss of gene function; amorphic.
Null
Neutral.
Null
To nullify; to annul.
Null
To return to the null position, setting, etc.
Null
To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
Null
To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).
Null
Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,Dead perfection; no more.
Null
Having a value of zero; as, of null utility.
Null
Empty; having no members; as, the null set.
Null
Unassigned or meaningless; - a special value given to variables, especially pointers or logical variables, indicating that it is meaningless and cannot be used in computation; as, an uninitialized pointer in "C" is given a null value. The actual value that is stored in memory to indicate the null condition may vary with the computer language used.
Null
Something that has no force or meaning.
Null
That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
Null
One of the beads in nulled work.
Null
To annul.
Null
A quantity of no importance;
It looked like nothing I had ever seen before
Reduced to nil all the work we had done
We racked up a pathetic goose egg
It was all for naught
I didn't hear zilch about it
Null
Lacking any legal or binding force;
Null and void
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