Aging vs Null - What's the difference?
aging | null |
(en noun) (US)
The process of becoming older or more mature.
Allowing something to become older.
The deliberate act of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is.
(gerontology) Becoming senescent; accumulating damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time
(euphemistic) Elderly person. Only as a collective plural in "the aging"
Becoming elderly.
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 aging and null
is that aging is the process of becoming older or more mature while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb aging
is .As an adjective aging
is becoming elderly.aging
English
(wikipedia aging)Alternative forms
* ageing (Commonwealth English)Verb
(head)Noun
- The owner asked the clerk to age some big bills that were due.
Adjective
(en adjective)- The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.
Usage notes
* Comparative and superlative forms are rare.Anagrams
*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.