Flan vs Null - What's the difference?
flan | null |
Baked tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case (the only meaning in UK)
Type of custard dessert, popular in Spanish-speaking countries (both the pastry version and this one may be called flan in the USA). Called crème caramel in UK
(numismatics) A flat metal disk used to strike coins.
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 flan and null
is that flan is baked tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case (the only meaning in uk) or flan can be a fan of us tv series ; a browncoat while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.flan
English
Etymology 1
(1846) (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)See also
* custardEtymology 2
English, from a slip of the tongue by actor (Nathan Fillion)References
* Nathan Fillion interview at an In Good Company premiere, 28 December 2004 (IESB.net video]) ([[q:Firefly (TV_series)) ----Quotes about Firefly and Serenity, Wikiquote transcription]
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.