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Javelin vs Null - What's the difference?

javelin | null |

As nouns the difference between javelin and null

is that javelin is a light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb javelin

is to pierce with a javelin.

javelin

Noun

(en noun)
  • A light spear thrown with the hand and used as a weapon.
  • * Addison
  • Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, / Launched by the vigour of a Roman arm?
  • A metal-tipped spear thrown for distance in an athletic field event.
  • Derived terms

    * javelineer * javelinier

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pierce with a javelin.
  • (Tennyson)

    See also

    * discus * hammer

    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 ----