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Frontal vs Null - What's the difference?

frontal | null |

As nouns the difference between frontal and null

is that frontal is a drapery covering the front of an altar while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective frontal

is of, relating to, directed toward, or situated at the front: a frontal attack .

frontal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, relating to, directed toward, or situated at the front: a frontal attack.
  • (anatomy) Of or relating to the forehead or frontal bone.
  • (anatomy) Of or relating to the frontal plane.
  • Of or relating to a weather front.
  • Derived terms

    * frontal bone * frontal lobe * full frontal nudity

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drapery covering the front of an altar.
  • The of a building.
  • (skeleton) The bone at the front of the skull, behind the forehead.
  • Any of the scales of a reptile that lie in the general region of the forehead, more specifically between the eyes and to the anterior of this area.
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    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 ----