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comber | null |

As a proper noun comber

is a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist thomas comber (1837-1902).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

comber

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who combs wool, etc.
  • A machine that combs wool, etc.
  • A long, curving wave breaking on the shore.
  • Synonyms
    * (long curving wave) breaker

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia comber) (Serranus cabrilla) (en)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • , the gaper, a fish found in European waters.
  • Derived terms
    * brown comber * painted comber * comber wrasse

    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 ----