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Convertible vs Null - What's the difference?

convertible | null |

As nouns the difference between convertible and null

is that convertible is a car whose roof can be removed or folded while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective convertible

is able to be converted.

convertible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to be converted
  • (obsolete) Capable of being turned or rotated
  • * 1635 , Nathanael Carpenter, Geography Delineated Forth in Two Bookes (1.4.77)
  • The Axis of the Earth is supposed to haue a convertible nature.
  • Capable of being exchanged or interchanged, reciprocal, interchangeable
  • * 1843 , '', book 3, ch. VI, ''Two Centuries
  • As if, in truth, there were no God of Labour; as if godlike Labour and brutal Mammonism were convertible terms.
  • (finance) Having the right to be converted into a different security, usually common stock, at the holder's option
  • Antonyms

    * inconvertible

    Noun

    (wikipedia convertible) (en noun)
  • A car whose roof can be removed or folded
  • (finance) A hybrid security that can be converted into stock
  • A portable computer that can be physically converted between laptop and tablet configurations.
  • Synonyms

    * (car with removable roof) cabriolet, cabrio (used of European cars), drophead (British), landau, roadster

    See also

    * landaulet ----

    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 ----