License vs Null - What's the difference?
license | null |
(label) A legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit.
(label) The legal terms under which a person is allowed to use a product, especially software.
(label) Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech).
(label) Excessive freedom; lack of due restraint.
* 1936 , , The Story of Civilization , page 520:
(label) An academic degree, the holder of which is called a licentiate, ranking slightly below doctorate, awarded by certain European and Latin-American universities.
The act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Authorize officially.
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 license and null
is that license is (label) a legal document giving official permission to do something; a permit while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb license
is the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization.license
English
Alternative forms
* (UK) licence (noun)Noun
- Even if you bought this product, it does NOT belong to you. You have a license to use it under the terms of this agreement, until you breach this agreement.
- When liberty becomes license dictatorship is near.
Usage notes
* In British English, Canadian English, Australian English, Irish English, and New Zealand English the noun is spelt licence'' and the verb is ''license . * The spelling licence is not used for either part of speech in the United States.Verb
(licens)T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.}}
Derived terms
* licensable * licensee * license plate * licenser * licensorExternal links
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*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.