Alphabet vs Null - What's the difference?
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The set of letters used when writing in a language.
A writing system in which letters represent phonemes.
# A true alphabet, a writing system in which there are letters for the consonant and'' vowel phonemes.
(computer science) A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
(India) An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
* 2002 , Eugene E. Dike, African myth of creation in African form of writing , Monsenstein und Vannerdat, ISBN 3936600406, page 30:
* 2005 , Satinder Bal Gupta, Comprehensive Discrete Mathematics & Structures , Laxmi Publications, page 237:
The simplest rudiments; elements.
* Macaulay
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 alphabet and null
is that alphabet is alphabet (the set of letters used when writing in a language) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.alphabet
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
- In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet .
- Let be a regular language over the alphabet .
- We realize the fact that the alphabet A has been used in many world scripts as a vowel with the others AEIOU.
- There are 26 alphabets in English.
- The very alphabet of our law.
Derived terms
() * alphabetic, alphabetical * alphabetize * alphabet soup * alphanumeric, alphanumerical * Cyrillic alphabet * Greek alphabet * Latin alphabet * Phoenician alphabet * phonetic alphabet * Roman alphabet * Russian alphabet * Ukrainian alphabetSynonyms
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* abjad * abugida * script * syllabary * writing system *External links
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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.