Topical vs Null - What's the difference?
topical | null |
Of current interest; contemporary.
local to a particular place
(medicine, not comparable) Applied to a localized part of the body.
Arranged according to topic or theme; thematic.
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 topical and null
is that topical is (pharmacology) a topical anaesthetic while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective topical
is of current interest; contemporary.topical
English
Adjective
(wikipedia topical) (en adjective)- ''Fair trade has become quite a topical subject.
Antonyms
* systemicAnagrams
* * *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.