Subscript vs Null - What's the difference?
subscript | null |
(printing) A type of lettering form written lower than the things around it.
(computing) A numerical index into an array.
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 subscript and null
is that subscript is (printing) a type of lettering form written lower than the things around it while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.subscript
English
Noun
(en noun)- In chemical formulas the number of atoms in a molecule is written as a subscript , so we write H2O for water which has two atoms of hydrogen for each one of oxygen.
Antonyms
* superscriptSee also
* superscribenull
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.