Obfuscation vs Null - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The act or process of obfuscating]], or [[obscure#verb, obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret.
(uncountable) Confusion, bewilderment, or a baffled state resulting from something obfuscated, or made more opaque and muddled with the intent to obscure information.
(countable) A single instance of intentionally obscuring the meaning of something to make it more difficult to grasp.
(computing, uncountable) The option to alter computer code, preserving its behavior but concealing its structure and intent.
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 obfuscation and null
is that obfuscation is (uncountable) the act or process of obfuscating]], or [[obscure#verb|obscuring the perception of something; the concept of concealing the meaning of a communication by making it more confusing and harder to interpret while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.obfuscation
English
(wikipedia obfuscation)Noun
- During the debate, the candidate sighed at his opponent's obfuscations .
- You need to turn on obfuscation for these classes.
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.