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Albatross vs Null - What's the difference?

albatross | null |

As nouns the difference between albatross and null

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

albatross

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
  • (golf) A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole.
  • (idiomatic) A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.
  • * 2006 March 13, (Richard Lugar), speech to the (Brookings Institution),
  • energy is the albatross of U.S. national security.

    Synonyms

    * (seabird) gooney bird, gooney, goonie * (impediment)albatross around one's neck

    Noun

  • an (l) (a large oceanic bird of the Southern Hemisphere )
  • ----

    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 ----