Intimation vs Null - What's the difference?
intimation | null |
The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
Announcement; declaration.
* (Holland)
A hint; an obscure or indirect suggestion or notice; a remote or ambiguous reference; as, he had given only intimations of his design.
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* 1862 , (Henry David Thoreau), :
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 intimation and null
is that intimation is the act of intimating; also, the thing intimated while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.intimation
English
Noun
(en noun)- They made an edict with an intimation that whosoever killed a stork, should be banished.
- Without mentioning the king of England, or giving the least intimation that he was sent by him.
- At length, perchance, the immaterial heaven will appear as much higher to the American mind, and the intimations that star it as much brighter.
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.