Hypo vs Null - What's the difference?
hypo | null |
(obsolete) Melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression (obsolete by 1881 according to Eric Partridge.
*1711' "I have a better Stomach tha usuall and have perfectly forgot what the '''Hyppo means",Joseph Collett, merchant, writing from Rio de Janeiro, Oct 15, 1711, in his ''Private Letter Books'', edited by H. H. Dodwell in 1933. (cited by Eric Partidge, ''A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventinoal English
*1837' Abraham Lincoln: Tell your sister I dont want to hear any more about selling out and moving. That gives me the '''hypo whenever I think of it. (Letter to Mary S. Owens,May 7. 1837 , ''Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln . Volume 1.
*1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
*:whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
*:But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo , Ishmael.(Chapter 42, "The Whiteness of the Whale")
(photography) sodium thiosulfate, a photographic fixing agent.
(slang) A hypoglycaemia attack in a person with diabetes.
(informal) The substance sodium hyposulfite.
(slang) A hypodermic syringe.
(slang, finance, British) Hypothecation.
(informal, among law students and their professors) A hypothetical case.
(informal, zoology) A hypomelanistic snake.
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 hypo and null
is that hypo is (obsolete) melancholy; a fit of ‘hypochondria’; a morbid depression (obsolete by 1881 according to eric partridge while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.hypo
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Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* usually in contexts where it is clear which specific term is meant.See also
* hypo-null
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.