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Obelisk vs Null - What's the difference?

obelisk | null |

As nouns the difference between obelisk and null

is that obelisk is obelisk (a tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

obelisk

Alternative forms

* obelisc

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author= , title=The Washington Monument , volume=100, issue=1, page=16 , magazine= citation , passage=The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk', and sometimes even as a “true '''obelisk''',” even though it is not. A true ' obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.}}
  • (printing) The dagger sign (†), especially when used as a reference mark.
  • See also

    * menhir * pillar ----

    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 ----