Albatross vs Null - What's the difference?
albatross | null |
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),
an (l) (a large oceanic bird of the Southern Hemisphere )
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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 albatross and null
is that albatross is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.albatross
English
Noun
(en-noun)- energy is the albatross of U.S. national security.
Synonyms
* (seabird) gooney bird, gooney, goonie * (impediment)albatross around one's neckNoun
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.