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Topaz vs Null - What's the difference?

topaz | null |

As nouns the difference between topaz and null

is that topaz is a clear, yellowish-brown gemstone while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective topaz

is of a yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.

topaz

English

(wikipedia topaz)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A clear, yellowish-brown gemstone.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=Lee A. Groat , title=Gemstones , volume=100, issue=2, page=128 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade.}}
  • A yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.
  • (historical, British India) A black Catholic soldier in the British Army.
  • Adjective

  • Of a yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.
  • Derived terms

    * blue topaz * Colorado topaz * false topaz * rose topaz * topazolite

    See also

    * * Killiecrankie diamond ----

    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 ----