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Rump vs Null - What's the difference?

rump | null |

As nouns the difference between rump and null

is that rump is the hindquarters of an animal while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

rump

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The hindquarters of an animal
  • A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
  • The buttocks.
  • Remnant, as in rump parliament .
  • Synonyms

    *(hindquarters of an animal) croupe, crupper * (cut of meat from the hindquarters of an animal) * see

    Derived terms

    * rump parliament; see * rump state

    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 ----