Decrepitate vs Null - What's the difference?
decrepitate | null |
To roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , Folio 2007, p. 333:
Of salts and minerals, to crackle when heated, indicating a sudden breakdown of their particles.
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 a verb decrepitate
is to roast (a salt or mineral) until it stops crackling in the fire.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.decrepitate
English
Verb
(decrepitat)- so will it come to pass in a pot of salt, although decrepitated ; and so also in a pot of Snow.
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.