Gray vs Null - What's the difference?
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(label) Having a color somewhere between white and black, as the ash of an ember.
* Isaac Newton
(label) Dreary, gloomy.
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(label) Having an indistinct, disputed or uncertain quality.
(label) Relating to older people.
* Ames
(label) To become gray.
(label) To cause to become gray.
To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
(en noun) (spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)
(label) An achromatic colour intermediate between black and white.
an extraterrestrial creature with grayish skin, bulbous black eyes, and an enlarged head.
A penny with a tail on both sides, used for cheating.Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language , second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 3, page 243
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of absorbed dose of radiation (radiation absorbed by a patient); one joule of energy absorbed per kilogram of the patient's mass. Symbol: Gy
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 a proper noun gray
is ; originally a nickname for someone with a gray beard or hair.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.gray
English
Alternative forms
* grey (used in the UK and the Commonwealth and also in the US)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Adjective
(er) (spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)Usage notes
A mnemonic for remembering which spelling is used where: gre'''y'' is the '''E'''nglish spelling, while ''gr'''a'''y'' is the '''A merican spelling. However, ''grey is also found in American English.Derived terms
{{der3, battleship gray , gray area , graybeard , gray-haired , grayhound , grayness , gray ghost , gray matter}}Verb
(en-verb) (spelled "grey" in the UK and the Commonwealth)Noun
See also
*References
Etymology 2
Named after (Louis Harold Gray).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
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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.
