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Proscription vs Null - What's the difference?

proscription | null |

As nouns the difference between proscription and null

is that proscription is a prohibition while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

proscription

Noun

(en noun)
  • A prohibition.
  • (history) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.
  • * 1837 , Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb,
  • He was wholly unopposed, for the boldest spirits had fallen in battle, or in the proscription [...]
  • The act of proscribing, or its result.
  • A decree or law that prohibits.
  • Usage notes

    * Do not confuse with prescription

    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 ----