Gorgon vs Null - What's the difference?
gorgon | null |
(Greek mythology) A vicious female monster from Greek mythology with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes.
An intimidating, ugly, or disgusting woman; anything hideous or horrid.
:"Swilling martinis and spewing venom, Phyllis is a particularly unappetizing gorgon , telling us at one point that an acquaintance of hers is aroused by the Heimlich maneuver." — Washington Post , July 1, 2005
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 gorgon and null
is that gorgon is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.gorgon
English
(wikipedia gorgon)Noun
(en noun)- (Milton)
References
* Chambers's Etymological Dictionary , 1896, p. 208See also
* Medusanull
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.