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Autocorrect vs Null - What's the difference?

autocorrect | null |

As a verb autocorrect

is to make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

autocorrect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To make an autocorrection; to correct something automatically
  • 2006 Joseph Reinhardt and Josien Pluim, "Medical imaging 2006", Part 3:
  • :: In [16], motion-free MR brain (Figure 2a) image was corrupted with motion artifacts and the resulting image (Figure 2b) was autocorrected to fix the motion artifacts.
  • 2011 Jeff Allen, Get Laid Or Die Trying: The Field Reports , page 212:
  • :: But the good news is that it autocorrects all of your subcommunications.
  • 2012 Margaret Mallet, The Primary English Encyclopedia , page 26:
  • :: The computer usually defaults to autocorrecting certain spellings and capitalising first words of sentences.
  • 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 ----