San vs Null - What's the difference?
san | null |
A letter of the Archaic Greek alphabet (uppercase ) that came after pi and before qoppa.
(dated, informal) A sanatorium.
* 1940 , Enid Blyton, The Naughtiest Girl in the School
* 2005 , Dan Soucoup, ?Richard Thorne McCully, McCully's New Brunswick (page 137)
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 an adjective san
is healthy.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.san
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)See also
*Etymology 2
sanatoriumNoun
(en noun)- "Haven't you heard?" said Belinda. "Joan's ill! She'd got a high temperature, and she's in bed in the San ."
- River Glade Sanatorium, River Glade, June 25, 1931. The "San " at River Glade with the Petitcodiac River in the background.
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.