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Bypass vs Null - What's the difference?

bypass | null |

As nouns the difference between bypass and null

is that bypass is a road that passes around something, such as a residential area while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb bypass

is to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass.

bypass

English

Noun

(wikipedia bypass) (bypasses)
  • a road that passes around something, such as a residential area
  • a circumvention
  • a section of pipe that conducts a fluid around some other fixture
  • an electrical shunt
  • (medicine) an alternative passage created to divert a bodily fluid around a damaged organ; the surgical procedure to construct such a bypass
  • Verb

    (es)
  • to avoid an obstacle etc, by constructing or using a bypass
  • to ignore the usual channels or procedures
  • Anagrams

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    References

    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 ----