Flitting vs Null - What's the difference?
flitting | null |
The motion of something that flits.
(Scotland, northern England) The act of moving from one residence to another; moving house.
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 87:
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 flitting and null
is that flitting is the motion of something that flits while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb flitting
is .flitting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- the flittings of birds
- Uncle Billy came home for the weekend to help with the flitting .
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.