Veld vs Null - What's the difference?
veld | null |
The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa.
* 1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 79:
* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 11:
* {{quote-news, 2007, January 14, Caroline Elkins, A Life Exposed, New York Times
, passage=For Holmes, Baartman’s journey as an object of European curiosity and African exploitation began on the veld of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. }}
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 veld and null
is that veld is the open pasture land or grassland of south africa while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.veld
English
(wikipedia veld)Alternative forms
* veldtNoun
(en noun)- Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky.
- From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village.
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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.