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Perambulation vs Null - What's the difference?

perambulation | null |

As nouns the difference between perambulation and null

is that perambulation is (rare) a survey, a tour; a walking around while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

perambulation

Noun

(s)
  • (rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.
  • (legal) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
  • Quotations

    *1902 : Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society , published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society *:Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of . *1929 : Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society , published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society *:The earliest known reference to the stone is that in the perambulation of the parish of recorded in the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory .

    Synonyms

    * (English legal ceremony ) bannering

    References

    *Radin Law Dictionary , Max Radin; Oceana Publications, 1970.

    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 ----