Central vs Null - What's the difference?
central | null |
Being in the centre.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-27, volume=408, issue=8846, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Being the most important.
Having or containing the centre of something.
Being very important, or key to something.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=September 7, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC Sport
, title= 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 an adjective central
is being in the centre.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.central
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Putting down roots, passage=The plantoid
Moldova 0-5 England, passage=Cleverley was a central figure as England took the lead inside three minutes. He saw his shot handled by Moldovan defender Simion Bulgaru and Lampard drilled home the penalty in trademark fashion.}}
Derived terms
* central bank * central heating * central locking * centralisation * centralise * centrally * centralnessnull
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.