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Docent vs Null - What's the difference?

docent | null |

As nouns the difference between docent and null

is that docent is a teacher or lecturer at some american colleges or universities while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective docent

is instructive; that teaches.

docent

English

(wikipedia docent)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Instructive; that teaches.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A teacher or lecturer at some American colleges or universities.
  • * 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 1212:
  • Zermelo had been a docent at Göttingen when Kit was there and, like Russell, had been preoccupied with the set of all sets that are not members of themselves.
  • (chiefly, US) A tour guide at a museum, art gallery, historical site, etc.
  • The docent greeted the visitors and welcomed them to the Louvre.

    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 ----