Kell vs Null - What's the difference?
kell | null |
(obsolete) The caul.
(obsolete, figurative) That which covers or envelops, like a caul; a net; a fold; a film.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect.
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 kell and null
is that kell is (obsolete) the caul or kell can be a kiln or kell can be a sort of pottage; kale while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.kell
English
Etymology 1
Compare caul.Noun
(en noun)- I'll have him cut to the kell .
- (Ben Jonson)
Etymology 2
Etymology 3
A modification of kale.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.