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Transportation vs Null - What's the difference?

transportation | null |

As nouns the difference between transportation and null

is that transportation is transportation while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

transportation

English

Noun

(-)
  • The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
  • We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation .
  • (historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
  • Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation .
  • (US) A means of conveyance.
  • Nice transportation , dude, but your brake lights are busted.
  • (US) A ticket or fare.
  • * 1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
  • Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"
    (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)
    Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."

    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 ----