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Admiral vs Null - What's the difference?

admiral | null |

As nouns the difference between admiral and null

is that admiral is admiral while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

admiral

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A naval officer of the highest rank; the commander of a country's naval forces.
  • A naval officer of high rank, immediately below Admiral of the Fleet; the commander of a fleet or squadron.
  • A flag officer in the United States Navy or Coast Guard of a grade superior to vice admiral and junior to admiral of the fleet (when that grade is used). An admiral is equal in grade or rank to a four star general.
  • The ship which carries the admiral, the flagship; also, the most considerable ship of a fleet.
  • (obsolete) A prince or Saracen leader under the Sultan.
  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies of Europe and America, especially a red admiral or white admiral.
  • Derived terms

    * Admiral of the Fleet * admiralcy * admiralty * rear admiral * vice admiral

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    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 ----