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Seconds vs Null - What's the difference?

seconds | null |

As nouns the difference between seconds and null

is that seconds is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb seconds

is (second).

seconds

English

Noun

(head)
  • There are sixty seconds in a minute.
  • A second serving of food for one person.
  • ''There is plenty of pie left, if you have room for seconds .
  • An item of clothing that has failed quality control and is sold at a discount
  • It was marked as seconds , but I can't find anything wrong with it.
  • Any article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; especially, a coarse or inferior kind of flour.
  • Synonyms

    * (second serving ): second helping

    Verb

    (head)
  • (second)
  • ----

    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 ----