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mnemonic | null |

As nouns the difference between mnemonic and null

is that mnemonic is anything (especially something in verbal form) used to help remember something while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective mnemonic

is of or relating to mnemonics: the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily.

mnemonic

English

Alternative forms

* mnemonick (qualifier)

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or relating to mnemonics: the study of techniques for remembering anything more easily.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything (especially something in verbal form) used to help remember something.
  • To remember the colours of the rainbow, use the mnemonic : Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet)
  • (computing) The textual, human-readable form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.
  • Synonyms

    * aide-memoire

    See also

    * Mnemosyne'', mother of the Muses, who personified Memory in Greek mythology. * crib

    References

    * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=mnemonic&searchmode=none] * *

    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 ----