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Finning vs Null - What's the difference?

finning | null |

As nouns the difference between finning and null

is that finning is the act of removing a live shark's fin, and releasing the shark back into the sea while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

finning

English

Noun

(-)
  • The act of removing a live shark's fin, and releasing the shark back into the sea.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=January 29, author=Camille Bains, title=Save sharks, skip soup, Year of Ox diners urged, work=Toronto Star citation
  • , passage=Humane Society International is targeting Chinese restaurants and diners in major cities across North America this week with its campaign against shark finning . }}

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----