What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Binding vs Null - What's the difference?

binding | null |

As nouns the difference between binding and null

is that binding is an item (usually rope, tape, or string) used to hold two or more things together while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective binding

is assigning something that one will be held to.

As a verb binding

is .

binding

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Assigning something that one will be held to.
  • This contract is a legally binding agreement.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An item (usually rope, tape, or string) used to hold two or more things together.
  • The spine of a book where the pages are held together.
  • (sewing) A finishing on a seam or hem of a garment
  • (programming) The association of a named item with an element of a program.
  • Derived terms

    * adapter binding * data binding * dynamic binding * early binding * key binding * late binding * static binding

    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 ----