Discovery vs Null - What's the difference?
discovery | null |
Something discovered.
(uncountable) The discovering of new things.
(legal, uncountable) A pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
(legal, uncountable) Materials revealed to the opposing party during the pre-trial phase in which evidence is gathered.
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 discovery and null
is that discovery is something discovered while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.discovery
English
Noun
- This latest discovery should eventually lead to much better treatments for disease.
- The purpose of the voyage was discovery .
- automatic discovery of RSS feeds by a Web browser
- The prosecution moved to suppress certain items turned up during discovery .
- The defense argued that the plaintiff's discovery was inadequate.
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.
