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Outgang vs Null - What's the difference?

outgang | null |

As nouns the difference between outgang and null

is that outgang is an exit or egress while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

outgang

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An exit or egress.
  • * (seeCites)
  • The act of giving up occupancy of property.
  • An outgate; a cattle-gate.
  • * 1841 , The history and antiquities of the seigniory of Holderness:
  • Sit William Saunders, priest, gave as follows:—for the repair of the church windows, bridges for a church road, bell ropes, &c., church balke, [...] dam, and dam bridge, and outgang', [...] ' outgang between White Hall Close and Mill Hill Close [...]
  • * 1896 , Thomas Blashill, Sutton-in-Holderness: The manor, the berewic, and the village community :
  • An ordinary outgang' was a place where the cattle of a village assembled, when they were to be driven out together to ... This ' outgang seems to have run between the old enclosed lands and the southern part of the West Carr or Marsh [...]
  • * 1902 , Doncaster (England), A calendar to the records of the borough of Doncaster :
  • A "bounder" of certain land belonging to the corporation of Doncaster in the occupation of John Lambe, minister of Rossington viz. a laithe or barn in the outgang' next the town street, the upper '''outgang''' and the nether ' outgang , and land in the Church field, the Ing field and the Park field.

    References

    * 1911, William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, The Century dictionary and cyclopedia , "outgang". ----

    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 ----