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Insolvent vs Null - What's the difference?

insolvent | null |

As nouns the difference between insolvent and null

is that insolvent is (legal) one who is insolvent; an insolvent debtor while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective insolvent

is unable to pay one's bills as they fall due.

insolvent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Unable to pay one's bills as they fall due.
  • an insolvent debtor
  • Owing more than one has in assets.
  • Not sufficient to pay all the debts of the owner.
  • an insolvent estate

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * solvent

    Derived terms

    * insolvency

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal) One who is insolvent; an insolvent debtor.
  • (Bouvier)

    Usage notes

    * In England, before 1861, especially applied to persons who were not traders. ----

    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 ----