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Spectral vs Null - What's the difference?

spectral | null |

As an adjective spectral

is having the appearance of a spectre; ghostly.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

spectral

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having the appearance of a spectre; ghostly.
  • The spectral chain-rattling and moans gave me the chills.
    A spectral spirit returns from its grave to haunt the house.
  • Of, or pertaining to, spectres.
  • Of, or pertaining to, spectra.
  • Derived terms

    * hyperspectral * (l)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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)

    See also

    * nil ----