Castor vs Null - What's the difference?
castor | null |
A pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture to allow it to be moved.
A hat made from the fur of the beaver.
* Sir Walter Scott
A caster; a container with perforated cap for sprinkling (e.g. pepper-castor ).
A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.
castoreum
(mineral) A variety of petalite found in Elba.
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 a proper noun castor
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.castor
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* casterNoun
(en noun)- I have always been known for the jaunty manner in which I wear my castor .
Derived terms
* castor sugarSee also
* castor bean * castor oilEtymology 2
Named from Greek mythology; see Castor and Pollux. The name pollux was given to another mineral with which it was always found.Noun
(-)Synonyms
* castorite (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* ----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.