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Debasement vs Null - What's the difference?

debasement | null |

As nouns the difference between debasement and null

is that debasement is the act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering, especially in character or quality while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

debasement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of debasing or the state of being debased; a lowering, especially in character or quality.
  • * 1832 , , "Bon Bon":
  • His large water-dog was acquainted with the fact, and upon the approach of his master, betrayed his sense of inferiority by a sanctity of deportment, a debasement of the ears, and a dropping of the lower jaw not altogether unworthy of a dog.
  • * 1912 , , The Reef , ch. 33:
  • She had given herself to Darrow, and concealed the episode from Owen Leath, with no more apparent sense of debasement than the vulgarest of adventuresses.
  • * 2009 , Gilbert Cruz, " The Many Faces of Addiction (Book review of America Anonymous: Eight Addicts in Search of a Life'' by Benoit Denizet-Lewis)," ''Time , 12 Jan.:
  • There's something ugly and fascinating about reading such intimate tales of debasement and depression and failure and self-doubt.
  • The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
  • Translations

    (The act of debasing or the state of being debased) (trans-mid) (trans-bottom) (The lowering of the value of a currency by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins) * German: (trans-mid) * Spanish: (trans-bottom)

    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 ----