Dux vs Null - What's the difference?
dux | null |
(UK) The top academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline.
* 1849 , Wilhelm Steven, The History of the High School of Edinburgh ,
* 1999 , Keith Scott, Gareth Evans ,
* 2010 , Roger K. A. Allen, Ballina Boy ,
* 2011 , A. Lydiard, Running to the Top ,
(historical) A high-ranking commander in the Roman army, responsible for more than one legion.
(music) The subject of a fugue, answered by the comes.
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 dux and null
is that dux is (uk) the top academic student in a school, or in a year of school; the top student in a specified academic discipline while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.dux
English
Noun
(en-noun)page 191,
- on the motion of Sir John Marjoribanks, Bart., Lord Provost, unanimously resolved, July 27, 1814, “that there be annually presented by the town of Edinburgh to the boy at the head of the Greek class, taught by the rector of the High School, a gold medal of the same value [five guineas] as that annually presented to the dux of the Latin class.”
page 29,
- He finished the year dux' of Form III with an average 90 per cent over eight subjects. The school did not award end-of-year marks in fourth and fifth forms, but Evans? report for those years shows he passed all subjects in both years and was again ' dux in Form V.
page 28,
- This school was where my father had been dux' in his senior year in 1937 just as his father had been ' dux at the Rockhampton Grammar School27 before the turn of the 19th century.
page 17,
- Quite a few who became national athletic champions were also duxes or top academic pupils at their schools.
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.