Facility vs Null - What's the difference?
facility | null |
The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity.
*, II.12:
Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent.
The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc.
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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 facility and null
is that facility is the fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.facility
English
Noun
(facilities)- Clytomachus'' affirmed, that he could never understand by the writings of ''Carneades'', what opinion he was of. Why hath ''Epicurus interdicted facility unto his Sectaries?
- The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.
- Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.
Internal Combustion, passage=As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities .}}
Derived terms
* correctional facilitynull
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.