Unless vs Null - What's the difference?
unless | null |
Except on a specified condition; if not.
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* 1839 , Denison Olmsted, A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95
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 conjunction unless
is except on a specified condition; if not.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.unless
English
Alternative forms
* unlesse (obsolete)Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- I’m leaving unless I get a pay rise (AmE: raise).
- Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.
Antonyms
* (except on a condition) ifDerived terms
* precisely unless * unlesss * unless and until, until and unlessStatistics
*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.