Salvo vs Null - What's the difference?
salvo | null |
An exception; a reservation; an excuse.
(military) A concentrated fire from pieces of artillery, as in endeavoring to make a break in a fortification; a volley.
By extension, any volley, as in an argument or debate.
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A salute paid by a simultaneous, or nearly simultaneous, firing of a number of cannon.
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 a verb salvo
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.salvo
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) salvo, ablative of salvus, the past participle of , either from salvo jure'' literally 'the right being reserved', or from ''salvo errore et omissone 'reserving error and omission'.Noun
(en noun)- They admit many salvos , cautions, and reservations. --Eikon Basilike.
- 2006
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Britannica's issued a salvo against Nature's famous "Wikipedia and the EB are comparably error-strewn" analysis.
Etymology 2
A 1719 alteration of salva'' (1591) "simultaneous discharge of guns," from (etyl) , imperative of salvere: "be in good health!," the usual Roman greeting, regarded as imperative of ''salvere "to be in good health,"Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=It was an impressive opening salvo from the Baggies, especially for a side that have made a poor beginning to what has been an admittedly tough start to their campaign.}}
See also
* the SalvosAnagrams
* * English terms with multiple etymologies ----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.