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Ledger vs Null - What's the difference?

ledger | null |

As nouns the difference between ledger and null

is that ledger is a book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

ledger

English

(wikipedia ledger)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records.
  • (accounting) A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
  • (construction) A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to the building.
  • A large flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
  • Derived terms

    * ledger bait * ledger board * (l) * ledger wall

    Anagrams

    *

    See also

    * (wikipedia "ledger") *

    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 ----