Fault vs Null - What's the difference?
fault | null |
A defect; something that detracts from perfection.
* Shakespeare
A mistake or error.
A weakness of character; a failing.
A minor offense.
Blame; the responsibility for a mistake.
(seismology) A fracture in a rock formation causing a discontinuity.
(mining) In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam.
(tennis) An illegal serve.
(electrical) An abnormal connection in a circuit.
(obsolete) want; lack
* Shakespeare
(hunting) A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
* Shakespeare
To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.
* Traditional song
(geology) To fracture.
To commit a mistake or error.
(computing) To undergo a page fault.
* 2002 , Æleen Frisch, Essential system administration
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 fault and null
is that fault is a defect; something that detracts from perfection while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb fault
is to criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone.fault
English
Noun
(en noun)- As patches set upon a little breach / Discredit more in hiding of the fault .
- No!. This is my fault, not yours
- For all her faults , she's a good person at heart.
- The fault lies with you.
- slate fault''', dirt '''fault , etc.
- (Raymond)
- one, it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend
- Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, / With much ado, the cold fault clearly out.
Derived terms
* at fault * double fault * to a faultSynonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- For that I will not fault thee / But for humbleness exalt thee.
- When a page is read in, a few pages surrounding the faulted page are typically loaded as well in the same I/O operation in an effort to head off future page faults.
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.