Leafful vs Null - What's the difference?
leafful | null |
The amount or measure held by a leaf.
*1906 , Mark Twain, The Complete Works of Mark Twain :
*2012 , Octavia E. Butler, Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago :
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 leafful and null
is that leafful is the amount or measure held by a leaf while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective leafful
is .leafful
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From .Noun
(en noun)- When night came, and the village was quiet, some old woman brought me a leafful of rice.
- "[…] Better than anything I've had for a long time.” He settled to breaking and eating the rest while Akin brought another leafful to Iriarte.
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.