Knoll vs Null - What's the difference?
knoll | null |
A small mound or rounded hill.
* Sir Walter Scott
To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
To sound, like a bell; to knell.
* Shakespeare, "As you like it", Act II, scene VII, 114
* Byron
* Tennyson
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 knoll and null
is that knoll is bulb while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.knoll
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)- On knoll or hillock rears his crest, / Lonely and huge, the giant oak.
Etymology 2
Imitative, or variant of (knell).Verb
(en verb)- If ever been where bells have knoll´d to church.
- For a departed being's soul / The death hymn peals, and the hollow bells knoll .
- Heavy clocks knolling the drowsy hours.
Etymology 3
Named after Knoll, a furniture fabrication shop, famous for its angular range of designer furniture.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.