Digit vs Null - What's the difference?
digit | null |
A finger or toe.
* Owen
A numeral that can be combined with others to write larger numbers, and that cannot itself be split into other numerals.
(slang, in the plural) One's phone number.
(archaic) A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three quarters of an inch.
(astronomy) A twelfth of the diameter of the Sun or Moon; used to express the quantity of an eclipse.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
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.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
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.
As nouns the difference between digit and null
is that digit is a finger or toe while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb digit
is to point at or point out with the finger.digit
English
Noun
(en noun)- The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.
- The digits of the decimal number system are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, and those in the hexadecimal number system are those in the decimal system along with A, B, C, D, E and F.
- The number 2307 has four digits: the thousands digit is 2; the hundreds digit is 3; the tens digit is 0; and the units digit is 7.
- That girl likes me — she gave me her digits .
- An eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.
Derived terms
* digital * digitizenull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.