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Krait vs Null - What's the difference?

krait | null |

As nouns the difference between krait and null

is that krait is any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus bungarus , of southeast asia while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

krait

English

Alternative forms

* karait

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of several brightly-coloured, venomous snakes, of the genus Bungarus , of southeast Asia.
  • * 2007 , A. Philip Parham, Feeling Free , page 190,
  • "Now, if you run into one of these kraits , you better NOT run away else you're a goner. It'll catch you for sure and you will die in your tracks."
  • * 2009 , Kate Jackson, Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo , page 295,
  • Very much in my thoughts is Joe Slowinski, a herpetologist killed a few years earlier by a misidentified juvenile krait , a snake so small that he couldn't tell if the fang had punctured the skin.
  • * 2011 , Lisa Kemmerer, Animals and World Religions , page 71,
  • India has a healthy share of poisonous snakes, including kraits , cobras, and two species of vipers, yet Hindu traditions are overwhelmingly snake-friendly.

    Derived terms

    * *

    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 ----