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Nonconformist vs Null - What's the difference?

nonconformist | null |

As nouns the difference between nonconformist and null

is that nonconformist is (christianity) a member of a protestant church which does not observe the doctrines of the established church, especially of the church of england while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

nonconformist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A member of a church separated from the Church of England; a Protestant dissenter.
  • Loosely, a Christian who does not conform to the doctrines of an established church.
  • Someone who does not conform to accepted beliefs, customs or practices.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not conforming to established customs etc.
  • See also

    * Nonconformist * nonconformity

    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 ----