Accountant vs Null - What's the difference?
accountant | null |
One who renders account; one accountable.
A reckoner, or someone who maintains financial matters for a person(s)
(accounting) One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts.
(accounting) One whose profession includes organizing, maintaining and auditing the records of another. The records are usually, but not always, financial records.
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 accountant and null
is that accountant is one who renders account; one accountable while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective accountant
is (obsolete) accountable.accountant
English
Alternative forms
(one who handles financial records)Etymology 1
* First attested in the mid 15th century. * * From (etyl), from (etyl) acuntant. * Compare (etyl) accomptant. * See also account .Noun
(wikipedia accountant) (en noun)Quotations
* {{quote-book, year=1900 , author=Francis William Pixley , title=Accountancy — constructive and recording accountancy (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd, London).citation, volume=1 , page=4 , passage=The word Accountant is derived from the French word compter'', which took its origin from the Latin word ''computare . The word was formerly written in English as "accomptant", but in process of time the word, which was always pronounced by dropping the "p", became gradually changed both in pronunciation and in orthography to its present form.}}
Derived terms
* accountant general * chartered accountant * Certified National AccountantEtymology 2
* First attested in the early 15th century.Usage notes
(adjective) Followed by the word to .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.