Border vs Null - What's the difference?
border | null |
The outer edge of something.
* Bentham
* Barrow
A decorative strip around the edge of something.
A strip of ground in which ornamental plants are grown.
The line or frontier area separating political or geographical regions.
* 2013 , Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins,
(British) Short form of border morris or border dancing; a vigorous style of traditional English dance originating from villages along the border between England and Wales, performed by a team of dancers usually with their faces disguised with black makeup.
To put a border on something.
To lie on, or adjacent to a border.
To touch at a border (with on'' or ''upon ).
To approach; to come near to; to verge.
* Archbishop Tillotson
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 border and null
is that border is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.border
English
(wikipedia border)Noun
(en noun)- the borders of the garden
- upon the borders of these solitudes
- in the borders of death
Afghanistan bomb: UK to 'look carefully' at use of vehicles(in The Guardian , 1 May 2013)
- The Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday the men had been killed on Tuesday in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand province, on the border of Kandahar just north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah.
Derived terms
* borderlinking * borderspace, borderspacingVerb
(en verb)- Denmark borders Germany to the south.
- Connecticut borders on Massachusetts.
- Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly.
Derived terms
* border on * cross-border 1000 English basic words ----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.