Vacancy vs Null - What's the difference?
vacancy | null |
An unoccupied position or job.
An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
Empty space.
*1993 , James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love , Book II:
*:Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy [...].
Lack of intelligence or understanding.
(physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
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 vacancy and null
is that vacancy is an unoccupied position or job while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.vacancy
English
Noun
(vacancies)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.