Merkin vs Null - What's the difference?
merkin | null |
A woman's pubic wig. Worn for nude stage appearances and by women after shaving their pubic hair (originally to eliminate lice, etc.; now often as a fashion item).
A mop for cleaning cannon.
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 merkin and null
is that merkin is a woman's pubic wig worn for nude stage appearances and by women after shaving their pubic hair (originally to eliminate lice, etc; now often as a fashion item) or merkin can be (british|slang|pejorative) an american while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.merkin
English
Etymology 1
1617, probably a variant form of malkin.Noun
(en noun)See also
(wikipedia merkin) (merkins) * codpiece * vonkEtymology 2
From the similar pronunciation to American .Alternative forms
* 'merkin, Merkin, 'Merkin; murkin, 'murkin, Murkin, 'Murkinnull
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.