Downgrade vs Null - What's the difference?
downgrade | null |
To place lower in position.
To 'dumb down', reduce in complexity, or remove unnecessary parts.
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(meteorology) to reduce the official estimate of a storm's intensity.
(computing) To revert software back to an older version.
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
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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 downgrade and null
is that downgrade is a reduction of a rating, as a financial or credit rating while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb downgrade
is to place lower in position.downgrade
English
Verb
(downgrad)- The stock was downgraded from 'buy' to 'sell'.
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Synonyms
* degrade * demote * defame * reduce * revert * ruinnull
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.