Uncastable vs Null - What's the difference?
uncastable | null |
That cannot be cast (filled with, or allocated, a theatrical role).
* 1974 , New York Magazine (volume 7, number 3, 21 January 1974)
* 1996 , Scott Donaldson, The Cambridge companion to Hemingway
(computing, programming) That cannot be cast (converted to other data types).
* 2000 , Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl
(medicine) That cannot be set in a cast.
* 2005 , Mercer Rang, Maya E Pring, Dennis Ray Wenger, Rang's children's fractures
That cannot be used for, or produced through, casting (manufacturing with a mould).
* 1943 , The Mining Magazine
* 1982 , Production engineering
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 an adjective uncastable
is that cannot be cast (filled with, or allocated, a theatrical role).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.uncastable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Colleen Dewhurst, though in many ways wrong for the virtually uncastable Josie, is as lucid and luminous...
- ...that he would, like many actors, become so stereotyped in the public mind as to be uncastable in other roles...
- They're strongly typed, uncastable pointers...
- ...internal fixation in children with open, unstable, or otherwise uncastable forearm fractures...
- Casting must be done within a day or two of moulding or the moulds will begin to wind-dry and become uncastable ...
- This allows the casting of otherwise uncastable materials, with acceptable rejection rates, and can increase ductility by as much as a factor of six.
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.