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Latest vs Null - What's the difference?

latest | null |

As nouns the difference between latest and null

is that latest is the most recent thing, particularly information or news while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective latest

is (late).

As an adverb latest

is .

latest

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (late)
  • Last, final.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
  • Whiles the sad pang approching she does feele, / Brayes out her latest breath, and vp her eyes doth seele.
  • Most recent.
  • Here is the latest news on the accident.

    Adverb

    (head)
  • At the latest.
  • Complete the XYZ task latest by today 5:00PM.
    (English Citations of "latest")

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The most recent thing, particularly information or news.
  • Have you heard the latest ?
    What's the latest on the demonstrations in New York?
    Have you met Jane's latest ? I hear he's a hunk.
  • *
  • * {{quote-book, title=Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia, page=54, books.google.com/books?isbn=156000830X,
  • author=(Edward Digby Baltzell), year=1979, passage=It has often been said that Philadelphia is the city of firsts, Boston of bests, and New York of latests .}}

    Anagrams

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    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 ----