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Ovalish vs Null - What's the difference?

ovalish | null |

As an adjective ovalish

is approximately oval-shaped.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

ovalish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Approximately oval-shaped.
  • *1996 , Norman Taylor, 1001 Questions Answered About Flowers , page 31:
  • Our native water arum has long-stalked, thick, coarse leaves that are ovalish and about three inches long.
  • *2005 , Vincenzo Lattanzio, Giovanni Simonetti, Guide to Interpreting, Recording, and Auditing Mammograhic Images , page 42:
  • An ovalish circumscribed opacity with blurred margins is seen in an upper position behind the areola, with the same density as the surrounding fibroglandular tissue.
  • *2008 , Michael J. Samways, Dragonflies and Damselflies of South Africa , page 198:
  • Hindwing with a mostly smooth-edged, ovalish , dark red patch, jagged only near front of wing.

    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 ----