Gaslight vs Null - What's the difference?
gaslight | null |
(British) The light produced by burning piped illuminating gas.
(British) A lamp which operates by burning gas.
(slang) To manipulate someone psychologically such that they question their own sanity.
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 gaslight and null
is that gaslight is (british) the light produced by burning piped illuminating gas while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb gaslight
is (slang) to manipulate someone psychologically such that they question their own sanity.gaslight
English
Alternative forms
* gas lamp (US)Noun
(en noun) (gas lighting)Verb
(gaslighting) (en verb)See also
* gaslit * gas mantlenull
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.
