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nerdcore | null |

As nouns the difference between nerdcore and null

is that nerdcore is (humorous) any intentionally nerdy style of music while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

nerdcore

English

Noun

(-)
  • (humorous) Any intentionally nerdy style of music.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 5, author=Alex Williams, title=Dungeons, Dragons and Dope Beats, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Many nerdcore anthems — “You Got Asperger’s” by MC Frontalot, “Fett’s Vette” by MC Chris, “View Source,” by Ytcracker (“Eagerly awaiting my macro advances/running with my beta cuz I’m taking chances”) — are as much efforts at comedy as they are attempts at sincere hip-hop. }}
  • * 2008 , GameAxis Unwired? magazine (July 2008)
  • A nerdcore track would take loop samples not from popular industrial tracks, but from the synthesizers of a popular NES game like Dig Dug
  • * 2008 , Benjamin Nugent, American Nerd: The Story of My People?
  • Self-styled “nerdcore ” rappers wear pocket protectors and rhyme about hard drives.
  • (slang, chiefly, attributive) The most dedicated nerds, especially in terms of computer ability.
  • * 2007 , HWM magazine (December 2007)
  • We're tech reviewers, not nerdcore programmers…
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 28, author=Darren Zenko, title=Exploring the Wii’s retro charms, work=Toronto Star citation
  • , passage=But the warmest spot in my nerdcore heart is reserved for the old-school pleasures of the Wii Virtual Console. }}
  • * 2008 , Windows Vista? magazine (Winter 2008)
  • But it takes the right kind of noodle to make a great gaming rig worthy of the “nerdcore elite” (and we mean that in a good way) without spending a fortune.

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    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 ----