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Outbreak vs Null - What's the difference?

outbreak | null |

As nouns the difference between outbreak and null

is that outbreak is an eruption, sudden appearance while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb outbreak

is to burst out.

outbreak

English

Noun

(wikipedia outbreak) (en noun)
  • An eruption, sudden appearance
  • ''Any epidemic outbreak causes understandable panic
  • A sudden increase.
  • There has been an outbreak of vandalism at the school.
  • An outburst or sudden eruption, especially of violence and mischief.
  • There has been an outbreak of broken windows in the street.
  • (uncountable) A geological layer that breaks out
  • Synonyms

    * outburst * tumult

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

  • To burst out
  • To break forth
  • See also

    * breakout

    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 ----