Discontinue vs Null - What's the difference?
discontinue | null |
To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying something.
* Shakespeare
* Daniel
* Holder
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 a verb discontinue
is to interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying something.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.discontinue
English
Verb
(discontinu)- They plan to discontinue that design.
- I have discontinued school / Above a twelvemonth.
- Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.
- They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.
Synonyms
* terminate * break offAntonyms
* continue ----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.