Trivia vs Null - What's the difference?
trivia | null |
insignificant trifles of little importance, especially items of unimportant information
A quiz game that involves obscure facts.
English plurals
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 a proper noun trivia
is (roman mythology) the goddess of crossroads.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.trivia
English
Noun
(trivia)- These trivia ''take'' up too much of the day.
- This trivia ''takes'' up too much of the day.
- I joined the trivia club this semester!
Usage notes
* Formerly, as word derived from a Latin plural, trivia required a plural verb, as in the first usage example above. Most modern authorities accept a singular verb, and this may be the preferred usage in the US. The game (2) is always regarded as a singular noun.Derived terms
* administrivia, trivial, triviality, trivializenull
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.