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Groat vs Null - What's the difference?

groat | null |

As nouns the difference between groat and null

is that groat is (chiefly|in the plural) hulled grain or groat can be any of various old coins of england and scotland while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

groat

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) grotes (pl.), from (etyl) grotan, plural of grot, from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) hulled grain
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from (etyl) groot, the (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
  • An historic English silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.
  • See also

    *

    Anagrams

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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 ----