Overflowed vs Null - What's the difference?
overflowed | null |
(overflow)
The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.
Outlet for escape of excess material.
(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.
To flow over the brim of (a container).
To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
To cause an overflow. (rfex)
To flow over the edge of a container.
To exceed limits or capacity.
# (computing, ambitransitive) To exceed the available numeric range.
To be superabundant; to abound.
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 a verb overflowed
is (overflow).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.overflowed
English
Verb
(head)overflow
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* overflow holeVerb
(en verb)- The river overflowed the levee.
- The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.
- So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water
- The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.
- The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.
- Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.
- (Rogers)
Derived terms
* buffer overflow * underflow English heteronyms ----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.