Masking vs Null - What's the difference?
masking | null |
The act by which something is masked.
An entertainment at which the guests conceal their faces with masks.
* 1984 , John Norman, Players of Gor
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 masking and null
is that masking is the act by which something is masked while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb masking
is .masking
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* antimasking * masking tapeNoun
(en noun)- Such things, maskings , and disguisings, and dressing up, sometimes in incredible and wild fashions, are all part of the fun of carnival.
Anagrams
*null
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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.