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Hypothecation vs Null - What's the difference?

hypothecation | null |

As nouns the difference between hypothecation and null

is that hypothecation is the use of property, or an existing mortgage, as security for a loan, etc or hypothecation can be (british) a tax levied for a specific expenditure while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

hypothecation

English

Etymology 1

. (wikipedia hypothecation)

Noun

(en noun)
  • the use of property, or an existing mortgage, as security for a loan, etc.
  • Derived terms
    * rehypothecation

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British) A tax levied for a specific expenditure
  • *{{quote-book, 1984, John R. Butler & Michael S. B. Vaile, Health and Health Services: An Introduction to Health Care in Britain, isbn=0710099029, page=68 citation
  • , passage=It is, however, precisely here that the weakness of hypothecation lies, for governments are not likely readily to surrender control over the disposition of taxes they impose.}}
  • *{{quote-book, 2006, Dominic Maxwell, The Citizen's Stake, chapter=Towards a citizen's inheritance, page=49 citation
  • , passage=So, strict hypothecation is only advisable when the tax pays entirely and only for that spending programme
  • *{{quote-book, 2006, , Motivation, Agency, and Public Policy citation
  • , passage=Either way, effectively the government is simply using the hypothecated tax as part of general revenue, and the hypothecation is a sham.}}

    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 ----