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Clawback vs Null - What's the difference?

clawback | null |

As nouns the difference between clawback and null

is that clawback is a rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party, but to which the other party would not have been entitled while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

clawback

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party, but to which the other party would not have been entitled.
  • Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision, but which is taken from them by another tax provision.
  • (US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
  • The airline got a clawback provision in the event of failure of the engines to meet fuel-consumption targets.
  • (obsolete) A flatterer or sycophant.
  • * Latimer
  • Take heed of these clawbacks .

    Synonyms

    * malus

    Coordinate terms

    * (l)

    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 ----