Adder vs Null - What's the difference?
adder | null |
(obsolete) A snake.
A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
(chiefly, British) A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera . The (common European adder) is the .
(US, Canada) Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling the adder, such as the milk snake.
The sea-stickleback or adder-fish.
Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
Something which adds or increases.
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 adder and null
is that adder is grass snake while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.adder
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) addere, misdivision of naddere, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* adder-fish * puff adderEtymology 2
(add).Noun
(en noun)- They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.
Derived terms
* carry-lookahead adder * carry-save adder * carry-skip adder * full adder * half adderAnagrams
* * * English agent nouns English nouns which have interacted with their indefinite article ----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.