Digression vs Null - What's the difference?
digression | null |
A departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; an exploration of a different or unrelated concern.
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 digression and null
is that digression is a departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; an exploration of a different or unrelated concern while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.digression
English
(wikipedia digression)Noun
(en noun)- The lectures included lengthy digressions on topics ranging from the professor's dog to the meaning of life.
See also
* detour ----null
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.