Rem vs Null - What's the difference?
rem | null |
rapid eye movement
remaining time: In music, the time remaining in a track.
(computing) A programming language statement used for documentation (in BASIC for example); also used in DOS batch files.
(chemistry) rare earth metal(s).
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 rem and null
is that rem is obstacle while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.rem
English
(rapid eye movement)Alternative forms
* * (rare) remEtymology 1
From the initial letters of rapid eye movement.Noun
(-)Derived terms
* REM sleepEtymology 2
Shortened from remaining.Noun
(-)Etymology 3
Shortened from remark.Noun
(-)Etymology 4
Shortened from rare earth metal.Noun
(-)Anagrams
*null
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.