Dumdum vs Null - What's the difference?
dumdum | null |
A bullet, with a soft nose, that expands upon impact to cause a gaping wound.
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 dumdum and null
is that dumdum is a bullet, with a soft nose, that expands upon impact to cause a gaping wound or dumdum can be an ignorant person, an idiot while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dumdum
English
Etymology 1
From , a city in India where the type of bullet was developed, from (etyl)Alternative forms
* dum-dumNoun
(wikipedia dumdum) (en noun)Etymology 2
From the adjective dumbnull
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.