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Sixgill vs Null - What's the difference?

sixgill | null |

As nouns the difference between sixgill and null

is that sixgill is a shark with six pairs of gill slits while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective sixgill

is having six pairs of gill slits, as some sharks do.

sixgill

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Having six pairs of gill slits, as some sharks do.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=August 1, author=Mike Hale, title=Ah, That Jersey Shore: The Fish Are Really Biting, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=“Shark After Dark” features scientists swimming with their subjects as they investigate their nocturnal feeding habits; residents of the Seattle area will be interested to know that well inside Puget Sound, quite large sixgill sharks come to the surface for dinner within 150 feet of shore. }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shark with six pairs of gill slits.
  • 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 ----