Lac vs Null - What's the difference?
lac | null |
A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Coccus lacca , a scale-shaped insect.
(slang) Short for Cadillac.
* 1992 , Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin , Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"
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 lac and null
is that lac is lake while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.lac
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m) from (etyl) .Noun
Derived terms
* Ceylon lac * lac dye * lac lake * Mexican lac * seedlac * shellac * sticklacEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* lakhEtymology 3
From Cadillac.Noun
(en noun)- Last night I was driving around in my lac .
- Macs drive lacs .
Synonyms
* (Cadillac) caddie, caddynull
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.