Homework vs Null - What's the difference?
homework | null |
Work that is done at home, especially school exercises set by a teacher.
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Preliminary or preparatory work, such as research.
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 homework and null
is that homework is work that is done at home, especially school exercises set by a teacher while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.homework
English
(wikipedia homework)Noun
(-)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
Usage notes
The term is generally used to refer to primary or secondary school assignments as opposed to college-level coursework.Quotations
* (English Citations of "homework")See also
* busy work * schoolworknull
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.