Terminate vs Null - What's the difference?
terminate | null |
To end, especially in an incomplete state.
* J. S. Harford
To kill.
To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
(label) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
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.
In mathematics terms the difference between terminate and null
is that terminate is expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite while null is of or comprising a value of precisely zero.As verbs the difference between terminate and null
is that terminate is to end, especially in an incomplete state while null is to nullify; to annul.As adjectives the difference between terminate and null
is that terminate is terminated; limited; bounded; ended while null is having no validity, "null and void.As a noun null is
a non-existent or empty value or set of values.terminate
English
Verb
(terminat)Synonyms
* (to end incompletely) discontinue, stop, break off * (to kill) See alsoAntonyms
* (to end incompletely) continueSee also
* abortExternal links
* *Adjective
(en adjective)References
*Anagrams
* English ergative verbs ----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.