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Undecided vs Null - What's the difference?

undecided | null |

As nouns the difference between undecided and null

is that undecided is a voter etc who has not yet come to a decision while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective undecided

is open and not yet settled or determined.

undecided

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Open and not yet settled or determined.
  • The question of man's destiny is still undecided .
  • Uncommitted, not having reached a decision.
  • The result of the election is in doubt because of a large number of undecided voters.

    Synonyms

    * (open and not yet settled) indeterminate, unsettled, indecisive * ambivalent, irresolute, of two minds, indecisive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A voter etc. who has not yet come to a decision.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 17, author=Jennifer Finney Boylan, title=At the Maine Caucuses, a Tough Nut to Crack, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=The real drama came as these two camps fought for undecideds , who literally found themselves in the middle. }}

    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 ----