Indices vs Null - What's the difference?
indices | null |
* 1972 , American Society for Metals, Materials Science and Engineering , volumes 9–10,
* 1976 , Sidney Heath, The Romance of Symbolism and Its Relation to Church Ornament and Architecture ,
* 1989 , TAPPI Journal , volume 72,
* 1999 , Institute of Oriental Studies of the Saint-Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Manuscripta Orientalia: International Journal for Oriental Manuscript Research , volume 5,
* 2000 , Russian Language Journal , volume 54, issues 177–179,
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 indices and null
is that indices is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.indices
English
Noun
(head)- The subscript numbers after each element are the indices of that element.
- A common convention in computing is to have indices''' beginning at zero, whereas in mathematics '''indices usually begin at one.
page 67(Elsevier Sequoia)
- To locate any term, and to facilitate use of the dictionary by a national of any of the three languages, alphabetical indices are appended in English, French and German.
page 98(Gale Research Co.; ISBN 0810343029, 9780810343023)
- Perhaps the feature which most contributes to making this a valuable reference book is the appendices and indices which are an integral part of the guide.
page 204(Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry)
- Alphabetical indices of the terms in the other languages are given at the end of the book.
page 71(THESA)
- The dictionary’s four indices are helpful when searching terms. These are: Hanyu Pinyin System Index; Four-Corner System Index; Radical Index; and Japanese Reading System Index.
page 295(Michigan State University, Department of German & Russian)
- Its word indices makes(sic) finding individual words easy.
Usage notes
* Both plurals are in common use. The OED claims that when referring to a directory listing, the plural indexes should be used.Anagrams
* ----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.