Denier vs Null - What's the difference?
denier | null |
An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.
* 2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 117:
A unit of weight which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery.
* 2002 , (Jill Mansell), Staying at Daisy's :
Person who something.
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 denier
is to deny.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.denier
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) denier, from (etyl) denarius.Noun
(en noun)- A bronze denier bearing the inscription CONRADUS around a central cross, was minted in Lugdunum.
- Upstairs she rummaged through her chest of drawers, finally unearthing an unopened pack of ten denier barely blacks.
See also
* texEtymology 2
(deny).Noun
(en noun)- Holocaust denier (see )
- Global warming denier (see )
- AIDS denier (see )
Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----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.