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Chatbox vs Null - What's the difference?

chatbox | null |

As nouns the difference between chatbox and null

is that chatbox is (internet) a chat room while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

chatbox

English

Noun

(es)
  • (Internet) A chat room.
  • * 1997 , "vdveen", JOTI 1997 Chatboxes IMPORTANT INFORMATION'' (on Internet newsgroup ''de.soc.jugendarbeit )
  • As you may know, in the third weekend of October, we will organise a JOTI (Jamboree On The Internet) weekend, instead of the JOTA. During that weekend we plan to open several chatboxes on IRC. On these boxes Scouts from all over the world can chat with each other.
  • * 1997 , "Billie Walker", Chatboxes and email'' (on Internet newsgroup ''bit.listserv.libref-l )
  • How do you handle students who use the Internet for chatboxes and email?
  • (Internet) A tagboard.
  • 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 ----