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five | null |

As nouns the difference between five and null

is that five is the digit/figure 5 while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a numeral five

is (cardinal) a numerical value equal to ; the number following four and preceding six this many dots (•••••).

five

English

(wikipedia five)

Alternative forms

* Arabic numerals: (see for numerical forms in other scripts) * Roman numerals: V

Numeral

(head)
  • (cardinal) A numerical value equal to ; the number following four and preceding six. This many dots (•••••)
  • See also

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The digit/figure 5.
  • He wrote a five followed by four zeroes.
  • (US) A five-dollar bill.
  • Can anyone here change a five ?
  • Anything measuring five units, as length.
  • All the fives are over there in the corner, next to the fours.
  • A person who is five years old.
  • The fives and sixes will have snack first, then the older kids.
  • five o'clock
  • See you at five .
  • A short rest, especially one of five minutes.
  • Take five , soldier.

    Derived terms

    * five and dime * five-and-twenty * five-bar gate * five-card stud * five-finger exercise * five-line whip * five o'clock * high five * low five * take five * gimme five * slap me five

    See also

    *

    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 ----