Three vs Null - What's the difference?
three | null |
(cardinal) A numerical value after two and before four. Represented in Arabic digits as ; This many dots (•••).
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(of a set or group) Having three elements.
The digit/figure 3.
Anything measuring three units, as length.
A person who is three years old.
The playing card featuring three pips.
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 three and null
is that three is the digit/figure 3 while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a numeral three
is (cardinal) a numerical value after two and before four represented in arabic digits as ; this many dots (•••).three
English
(wikipedia three)Alternative forms
* (all obsolete)Numeral
(head)- Venters began to count them—one—two—three —four—on up to sixteen.
Synonyms
* (numerical value) leash, tether (dialectal)See also
*Noun
(en noun)- Put all the threes in a separate container.
- All the threes will go in Mrs. Smith's class, while I'll take the fours and fives.
Derived terms
* threefold * threepence * threesome * thruppence * three-upSee also
* (Symbols of number three in various numeral systems) * * : 3 * * : ?, ? * : * * * * * * * * * * * * : * : III * * * *Statistics
*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.