Backfill vs Null - What's the difference?
backfill | null |
To refill a hole with the material dug out of it.
(archaeology) To refill an excavation unit to restore the former ground surface and or to preserve the unit and make it recognizable as having been excavated.
* We backfilled the cistern with pea gravel to discourage its use as a refuse container.
(US) To provide reserve support.
(US) To replenish or restock due to attrition or loss.
The material that has been used to refill an excavation.
(US) Reserve support personnel.
(US) That which backfills; a replacement.
(literature) Material in a story set earlier in the past, providing history or context for the current action.
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 backfill and null
is that backfill is the material that has been used to refill an excavation while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb backfill
is to refill a hole with the material dug out of it.backfill
English
Verb
(en verb)- The company backfilled Joe's position after he was terminated.
Noun
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.