Octet vs Null - What's the difference?
octet | null |
A group or set of eight of something.
(music) A group of eight musicians performing together.
(music) A composition for such a group of musicians.
(computing) A byte of eight bits. Abbreviation: o
(computing, rare) A group of three bits, representing eight possible values.
* 2003 , Nitesh Dhanjani, Linux and UNIX security portable reference
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 octet and null
is that octet is a group or set of eight of something while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.octet
English
(wikipedia octet)Alternative forms
* octett (rare), octetteNoun
(en noun)- An octet of waiters sang her "Happy Birthday".
- This is done by breaking down each set of permissions (user, group, and other) to represent an octet .
Synonyms
* (group of eight ): octuplet, ogdoad (rare) * (computing: 8-bit byte ): byteDerived terms
* octet ruleSee also
* duet * nonet * quartet * quintet * septet * sextet * solo * trio ----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.