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Provenance vs Null - What's the difference?

provenance | null |

As nouns the difference between provenance and null

is that provenance is place or source of origin while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

provenance

English

Noun

(wikipedia provenance) (en noun)
  • Place or source of origin.
  • Many supermarkets display the provenance of their food products.
  • (archaeology) The place and time of origin of some artifact or other object. See Usage note below.
  • This spear is of Viking provenance .
  • (arts) The history of ownership of a work of art
  • The picture is of royal provenance .
  • (computing) The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data utilized to compute a final data element, as in a database record or web site (data provenance)
  • (computing) The execution history of computer processes which were utilized to compute a final piece of data (process provenance)
  • (of a person) Background; history; place of origin; ancestry.
  • See also

    * provenience

    Usage notes

    * The term provenience in archaeology has largely replaced provenance'' because ''provenience'' is restricted to in situ location at the date of archaeological discovery rather than the "origin-to-present" chain of custody details of proper ''provenance as is customarily used by historians, museums, and commercial entities.

    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 ----