Calvity vs Null - What's the difference?
calvity | null |
(uncountable) Baldness.
An area of skin that has become bald.
* 1972 , Patrick O'Brian, Post Captain ,
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 calvity and null
is that calvity is (uncountable) baldness while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.calvity
English
Noun
(calvities)- He wore his own hair – what there was left of it: short tight curls round a shining calvity , though he was in his thirties, no more – and he looked like one of the fatter, more jovial Roman emperors […].
Usage notes
* (baldness) The synonymous form (calvities) is more common. Though one appears to be the other's plural, in fact both forms are uncountable.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.