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Leaking vs Null - What's the difference?

leaking | null |

As nouns the difference between leaking and null

is that leaking is the act by which something leaks while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb leaking

is .

leaking

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something leaks.
  • (in the plural) That which leaks out.
  • * 2007 , Lynne Conner, Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater (page 15)
  • on rainy nights the audience in the pit held up their umbrellas to screen themselves from the leakings through the roof.

    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 ----