Percentage vs Null - What's the difference?
percentage | null |
The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
A share of the profits.
(informal) Benefit or advantage.
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 percentage and null
is that percentage is the amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.percentage
English
Noun
(en noun)- A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year .
- She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
- There was no percentage in staying at home.
Usage notes
* A percentage is often denoted by the character (%). : Ex. 50%'' denotes ''50 per cent .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.