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Sealing vs Null - What's the difference?

sealing | null |

As nouns the difference between sealing and null

is that sealing is action of the verb to seal in any sense or sealing can be hunting of seals (the animals ) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective sealing

is used for closing securely.

As a verb sealing

is or sealing can be .

sealing

English

Etymology 1

(seal) (device )

Adjective

(-)
  • Used for closing securely.
  • Derived terms
    * self-sealing * sealing apparatus * sealing bath * sealing bloom * sealing cell * sealing compound * sealing material * sealing money * sealing power * sealing smut * sealing strip * sealing-thread * sealing-water * sealing-wax, sealing wax

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

  • Action of the verb to seal in any sense.
  • Derived terms
    * seam sealing

    Etymology 2

    (seal) (mammal )

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (-)
  • Hunting of seals (the animals ).
  • Derived terms
    * sealing-voyage

    Anagrams

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    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 ----