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Covent vs Null - What's the difference?

covent | null |

As nouns the difference between covent and null

is that covent is (obsolete) convent while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

covent

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) convent
  • * {{quote-book, year=c. 1500, author=Anonymous, title=A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=And in this yere deyde Huberd erchebisshop of Caunterbury; and thanne the priour and the covent of Caunterbury chosen in there chapytre hous the noble clerk Stephen of Langeton, ayens the kynges will, whome the pope sacred at Viterke. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=The Jew of Malta, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=BARABAS. Marry, the Turk [134] shall be one of my godfathers, But not a word to any of your covent . }}

    Derived terms

    * (Covent Garden) ----

    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 ----