Minus vs Null - What's the difference?
minus | null |
(mathematics) of the previous number from the following number.
(mathematics) Negative.
On the negative part of a scale.
Ranking just below a designated rating.
(mathematics) A minus sign ().
(mathematics) A negative quantity.
A defect or deficiency.
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 minus and null
is that minus is a minus sign while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.minus
English
Conjunction
(move) (English Conjunctions)- seven minus two is five
Derived terms
* minus signSynonyms
* lacking, withoutAdjective
(-)- a minus number
- minus seven degrees
- He got a grade of B minus for his essay.
Synonyms
* (negative) negative * (on the negative part of a scale) below zero (after the noun )Noun
(minuses)Synonyms
* (defect or deficiency) defect, deficiency, drawback, flaw, shortcomingAntonyms
* (minus sign) plus, plus sign * (negative quantity) positive * (defect or deficiency) advantage, bonus, boon, gain, plusSee also
* subtract * subtractionReferences
*Anagrams
* ----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.