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Desktop vs Null - What's the difference?

desktop | null |

As nouns the difference between desktop and null

is that desktop is the top surface of a desk while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective desktop

is designed for use on a desk or similar piece of furniture.

desktop

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The top surface of a desk.
  • (computing) A desktop computer.
  • Laptops are often more expensive than desktops .
  • (computing) The main graphical user interface of an operating system, usually displaying icons, windows and background wallpaper.
  • I installed a new application and it added its icon to my desktop .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Designed for use on a desk or similar piece of furniture.
  • (computing) Of an application, converted to be carried out on a personal computer.
  • Derived terms

    * desktop computer * desktop environment * desktop metaphor * desktop publishing ----

    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 ----