Fro vs Null - What's the difference?
fro | null |
(archaic) From; away; back or backward. In modern English used only in the set phrase (to and fro) ("back and forth").
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 fro and null
is that fro is woman (female human) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.fro
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fro, fra, from (etyl) . More at (l).Adverb
(-)Derived terms
* froward * to and fro * enfrowardEtymology 2
A shortening of afro.Anagrams
* * English clippings ----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.