Priority vs Null - What's the difference?
priority | null |
An item's relative importance.
A goal of a person or an organisation.
(taxonomy, of a name) A superior claim to use by virtue of being validly published at an earlier date.
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(obsolete) Precedence; superior rank.
* 1608 , , I. i. 244:
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 nouns the difference between priority and null
is that priority is an item's relative importance while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.priority
English
(wikipedia priority)Noun
(priorities)- He set his e-mail message's priority to high.
- She needs to get her priorities straight and stop playing games.
- Neither [Jones] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority ."
- Follow Cominius. We must follow you. / Right worthy you priority.
Derived terms
* aperture priority * prioritise / prioritize * prioritization * shutter priority * top prioritynull
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.