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Speakerless vs Null - What's the difference?

speakerless | null |

As an adjective speakerless

is without a speaker (narrator).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

speakerless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Without a speaker (narrator).
  • * 1984 , Dudley Andrew, Concepts in film theory
    • ...for myth is a speakerless instance of language. It is a system that always speaks itself...
  • * 1996 , Monika Fludernik, Towards a 'natural' Narratology
    • ...this manipulation is motivated, intentional, the result of agency, and this agency cannot be ascribed to speakerless sentences in and of themselves.
  • Without a speaker (orator).
  • * 1978 , Allan Peskin, Garfield: a biography
    • One distraught party chairman from Brazil, Maryland, faced with the prospect of a speakerless rally, prayed, "FOR GOD'S SAKE SEND US INGERSOLL,"...
  • * 2005 , Harold W Donahue, The Toastmaster's Manual
    • How to Conduct a Speakerless Banquet.
  • Without speakers.
    • a speakerless audio system

    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)

    Related terms

    * annul

    See also

    * nil ----