Codeword vs Null - What's the difference?
codeword | null |
(cryptography) A string representing an encoded piece of text.
A type of crossword puzzle where individual letters are represented by numbers and the solver must identify them by their position and frequency.
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 codeword and null
is that codeword is (cryptography) a string representing an encoded piece of text while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.codeword
English
Noun
(en noun)- Bob cannot get any information out of the codeword since he doesn't know what transmission bases Alice used.
Derived terms
* pseudocodewordnull
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.