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Overpack vs Null - What's the difference?

overpack | null |

As nouns the difference between overpack and null

is that overpack is a container intended to hold smaller containers while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb overpack

is to pack too much.

overpack

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To pack too much.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=June 15, author=Michelle Higgins, title=Checking Baggage? Not at These Prices, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Infrequent travelers tend to overpack , stuffing suitcases full of a different outfit for every day of the week, plus a few extras — just in case. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A container intended to hold smaller containers.
  • *{{quote-web
  • , year = 2011 , author = Minnesota Department of Transportation , title = Minnesota Commercial Truck and Passenger Regulations Fact Sheet , site = http://www.dot.state.mn.us/ , url = http://www.dot.state.mn.us/cvo/factsheets/overpacks.pdf , accessdate = 2013-05-03 , passage=Each container in an overpack must be a package authorized for that hazardous material in the HMR. }}

    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 ----