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Candidacy vs Null - What's the difference?

candidacy | null |

As nouns the difference between candidacy and null

is that candidacy is the state, or act of being a candidate while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

candidacy

English

Noun

(candidacies)
  • the state, or act of being a candidate
  • * 1844 Epes Sargent - The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay
  • Let it be borne in mind, moreover, that since the period of his last candidacy he has rendered the most memorable services to the country
  • * 2002 Allan H. Keith - Turbulent Times
  • However, this almost certainly happened because of the third party candidacy of former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt
  • * 1984 Kenneth Meyer Setton - The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571)
  • Anyhow, if the opportunity presented itself, Requesens thought that Philip should support the candidacies of Giovanni Ricci, Clemente DolerĂ¡, and Ghislieri, . . .

    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 ----