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Aboveground vs Null - What's the difference?

aboveground | null |

As nouns the difference between aboveground and null

is that aboveground is the portion of society that is not underground while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective aboveground

is above the surface of the ground.

aboveground

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Above the surface of the ground.
  • (figurative)  Above the surface.
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  • Not dead and buried; alive.
  • Existing, produced, or published by or within the establishment.
  • Antonyms

    * (above the surface of the ground) belowground, underground * underground

    Noun

    (-)
  • The portion of society that is not underground.
  • 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 ----