Fatality vs Null - What's the difference?
fatality | null |
The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate.
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
* William Wilkie Collins
Death.
An accident that causes death.
* 2011 , David Foster Wallace, The Pale King , page 13:
(video games ) A move where one character kills another.
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 fatality and null
is that fatality is the state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.fatality
English
Noun
(fatalities)- What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities ?
- the whole thing felt like being in a near traffic fatality avoided by inches and later not being able to think of the whole thing lest you begin shaking...
Synonyms
* (state proceeding from destiny) inevitability * mortalitynull
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.