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Null vs Zilch - What's the difference?

null | zilch |

Zilch is a synonym of null.



As nouns the difference between null and zilch

is that null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values while zilch is nothing.

As an adjective null

is having no validity, "null and void.

As a verb null

is to nullify; to annul.

As a proper noun Zilch is

{{surname|lang=en|from=German}.

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 ----

    zilch

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (informal) nothing.
  • * 1991 , Judith Arnold, One Good Turn? , page 104:
  • "If the homeless wind up with zilch'," James retorted, veiling his indignation behind a malevolent smile, "it's because they deserve ' zilch ."

    Synonyms

    * zero (standard), zip (informal), nada (informal)

    References