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Cocoon vs Null - What's the difference?

cocoon | null |

As nouns the difference between cocoon and null

is that cocoon is the silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects and moths in which they metamorphose, the pupa while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb cocoon

is to envelop in a protective case, or to withdraw into such a case.

cocoon

English

(wikipedia cocoon)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The silky protective case spun by the larvae of some insects and moths in which they metamorphose, the pupa.
  • Any similar protective case, whether real or metaphorical.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To envelop in a protective case, or to withdraw into such a case.
  • English reduplications

    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 ----