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Sitting vs Null - What's the difference?

sitting | null |

As nouns the difference between sitting and null

is that sitting is a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a verb sitting

is .

As an adjective sitting

is executed from a sitting position.

sitting

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
  • Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.
    The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
  • A legislative session.
  • The act (of a bird) of incubating eggs; the clutch of eggs under a brooding bird.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * sitting pretty

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Executed from a sitting position.
  • Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
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  • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.

    Derived terms

    * sitting duck * sitting tenant

    Statistics

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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 ----