Exord vs Null - What's the difference?
exord | null |
(literature) A preface or prefatory passage
* {{quote-journal, 1830, , Ferrario -- On Chivalry and Romance and Italian Romantic Poetry, Foreign Quarterly Review, volume=VI, issue=XIII, page=387
, passage=One peculiarity of Bello is his having first broken through the custom of religious invocations at the heads of his cantos, in place of which he substituted poetical exords , or reflections on the events of his narrative, or on circumstances connected with them.}}
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 exord and null
is that exord is (us|military) an execute order: an order to implement a specified plan while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.exord
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Noun
(en noun)citation
Synonyms
* preface * proem * exordiumAnagrams
* *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.