Invisible vs Null - What's the difference?
invisible | null |
Unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible.
* (John Milton)
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Not appearing on the surface.
(Internet) Apparently, but not actually, offline.
(psychology) That is ignored by a person.
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 an adjective invisible
is unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.invisible
English
Adjective
(-)- To us invisible , or dimly seen / In these thy lowest works.
William E. Conner
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- The teeth on an invisible zip are different from those on a conventional zip, as they are turned onto the inside so that they do not show, giving the impression of being concealed in the seam, as seen below.
Synonyms
* (not appearing on the surface) hidden, latentAntonyms
* visible * apparentnull
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.