Neph vs Null - What's the difference?
neph | null |
nephew
(rare, slang) nephrologist
* 2000 January 13, "seasons change" (username), Creatnine levels dropping'', in alt.support.kidney-failure, ''Usenet :
* 2000 december 28, "Mara" (username), the denist and a tongue piercing'', in rec.arts.bodyart, ''Usenet :
* 2003 May 24, "Spot" (username), Sinus problems since transplant?'', in bit.listserv.transplant, ''Usenet :
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 neph and null
is that neph is nephew while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.neph
English
Noun
(en noun)- My nephs and dietition(SIC) are adamant against my taking anything
- My neph wants the oral surgeon to use nothing but Novacaine.
- Thanks for the information. My neph has a fit any time I mention going on something like this but I'm at the end of the line for this crap. Everytime I turn around it's another infection and a different stronger antibiotic.
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.