Sunset vs Null - What's the difference?
sunset | null |
The time of day when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
The changes in color of the sky at sunset.
(figuratively) The final period of the life of a person or thing.
* Campbell
(attributively) Having a set termination date.
The region where the sun sets; the west.
(business, politics, transitive) To phase out.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
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.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
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.
As nouns the difference between sunset and null
is that sunset is the time of day when the sun disappears below the western horizon while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb sunset
is (business|politics|transitive) to phase out.sunset
English
(wikipedia sunset)Noun
(en noun)- 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.
- one's sunset years
- The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.
Synonyms
* (time) dusk, sundown (US), nightfall, twilight * (change in color of the sky at sunset) * (final period of life) end, final act, swansong * last, terminal, twilightAntonyms
* sunriseDerived terms
* sunset shell * sunset yearsSee also
* moonsetVerb
- We'll be sunsetting version 1.9 of the software shortly after releasing version 2.0 next quarter.
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Anagrams
*null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.