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Subtotal vs Null - What's the difference?

subtotal | null |

As nouns the difference between subtotal and null

is that subtotal is the total for a part of a list of numbers being summed while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As verbs the difference between subtotal and null

is that subtotal is to calculate a subtotal while null is to nullify; to annul.

As adjectives the difference between subtotal and null

is that subtotal is less than total; partial while null is having no validity, "null and void.

subtotal

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The total for a part of a list of numbers being summed.
  • Verb

  • To calculate a .
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Less than total; partial.
  • * 2007 , Caroline Bunker Rosdahl, Mary T. Kowalski, Textbook of Basic Nursing (page 1184)
  • A subtotal thyroidectomy usually prevents the recurrence of hyperthyroidism because only enough of the gland is left to maintain normal function.
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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 ----