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Obverse vs Null - What's the difference?

obverse | null |

As nouns the difference between obverse and null

is that obverse is the heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective obverse

is turned or facing toward the observer.

obverse

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Turned or facing toward the observer.
  • The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.
  • Corresponding; complementary.
  • When you speak clearly, people understand you. If you don't mumble, the obverse effect is observed.
  • (botany) Having the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top.
  • an obverse leaf

    Synonyms

    * (turned toward the observer ): facing, presenting * (corresponding ): analogous, like, parallel, reciprocal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.
  • The medal had a cross on the obverse and had a name inscribed on the reverse.
  • (logic) The double negative of a statement e.g. All men are mortal'' => ''No man is immortal
  • Antonyms

    * reverse

    Anagrams

    * *

    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 ----