Hex vs Null - What's the difference?
hex | null |
To put a hex (a spell, especially an evil spell) on.
An evil spell or curse.
A witch.
(rare) A spell (now rare but still found in compounds such as hex sign and hexcraft).
(computing, informal)
A hexagonal space on a game board.
a hexagon-shaped item of rock climbing equipment intended to be wedged into a crack or other opening in the rock.
English terms with multiple etymologies
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 hex and null
is that hex is witch while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.hex
English
(wikipedia hex)Etymology 1
First attested about 1830, from (etyl)Verb
Noun
(hexes)Etymology 2
Short for hexadecimal.Noun
(-)Etymology 3
Short for hexagon.Noun
(es)See also
(climbing) nutReferences
null
English
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.
