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Backing vs Null - What's the difference?

backing | null |

As nouns the difference between backing and null

is that backing is support, especially financial while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective backing

is (music) that which provides support for the main performer.

As a verb backing

is .

backing

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Support, especially financial.
  • It's a volunteer organization that works with backing from the city and a few grants.
  • A liner or other material added behind or underneath.
  • The cardboard backing gives the notebook a little extra stiffness.
  • (music) Musicians and vocalists who support the main performer
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • (music) That which provides support for the main performer
  • Verb

    (head)
  • 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 ----