Third vs Null - What's the difference?
third | null |
The ordinal form of the cardinal number three; Coming after the second.
The person or thing in the third position.
One of three equal parts of a whole.
(uncountable) The third gear of an engine.
(music) An interval consisting of the first and third notes in a scale.
(baseball) third base
(archaic) One sixtieth of a second, i.e., the third in a series of fractional parts in a sexagesimal number system. Also formerly known as a tierce.
To agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been .
To divide into three equal parts.
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 third and null
is that third is the person or thing in the third position while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective third
is the ordinal form of the cardinal number three; coming after the second.As a verb third
is to agree with a proposition or statement after it has already been.third
English
Adjective
(-)- The third tree from the left is my favorite.
Synonyms
* ; IIINoun
- Jones came in third .
- He ate a third''' of the pie. Divided by two-'''thirds .
- Now put it into third .
- They sing in thirds .
- The play ended with Jones standing on third .
Synonyms
* (gear) third gear * (fractions)Derived terms
* thirdnessVerb
(en verb)See also
* intervalnull
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.