Cipher vs Null - What's the difference?
cipher | null |
A numeric character.
Any text character.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
A combination or interweaving of letters, as the initials of a name; a device; a monogram.
A method of transforming a text in order to conceal its meaning.
* Bishop Burnet
(cryptography) A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters]] or sequences of [[bit, bits into ciphertext.
Ciphertext; a message concealed via a cipher .
A grouping of three digits in a number, especially when delimited by commas or periods:
A design of interlacing initials: a decorative design consisting of a set of interlaced initials.
(music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
A hip-hop jam session [http://www.rapdict.org/Cipher]
The path (usually circular) shared cannabis takes through a group, an occasion of cannabis smoking.
Someone or something of no importance.
* Washington Irving
(obsolete) Zero.
(regional, dated) To calculate.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 2, ch. IX, ''Abbot Samson
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 cipher and null
is that cipher is a numeric character while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb cipher
is (regional|dated) to calculate.cipher
English
Alternative forms
* cypher, less common than cipher but still in use in English. see The Ultra Secret by 's series of Cyphers (Nr 1, Nr 2, Nr 3, ...) before and into WWII.Noun
(en noun)- This wisdom began to be written in ciphers and characters and letters bearing the forms of creatures.
- a painter's cipher''', an engraver's '''cipher , etc.
- The message was written in a simple cipher . Anyone could figure it out.
- His father engaged him when he was very young to write all his letters to England in cipher .
- The message is clearly a cipher , but I can't figure it out.
- The probability is 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 — a number having five ciphers of zeros.
- Here he was a mere cipher .
Synonyms
* (numeric character) number, numeral * (method for concealing the meaning of text) code * (cryptographic system using an algorithm) * (ciphertext) * * (design of interlacing initials) monogram * (fault in an organ valve causing a pipe to sound continuously) * (hip-hop jam session) * (path that shared cannabis takes through a group) * (someone or something of no importance) (person): nobody, nonentity; (thing) nonentity, nothing, nullity * naught/nought, nothing, oh, zeroDerived terms
* ciphertext * cypherpunk * cypherparty * decipher * encipherCitations
Verb
(en verb)- I never learned much more than how to read and cipher .
- For the mischief that one blockhead, that every blockhead does, in a world so feracious, teeming with endless results as ours, no ciphering will sum up.
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.