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Visor vs Null - What's the difference?

visor | null |

As nouns the difference between visor and null

is that visor is a part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face the openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

visor

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(wikipedia visor) (en noun)
  • A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
  • * 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 7:
  • A close helmet entirely covers the head, face, and neck, having on the front perforations for the admission of air, and slits through which the wearer may see objects around him, this part which is stiled the visor lifts up by means of a pivot over each ear.
  • A mask used to disfigure or disguise.
  • * 1608 , William Shakspeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre , Act IV, Scene IV, line 44.
  • No visor does become black villainy So well as soft and tender flattery.
  • The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
  • 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 ----