Virus vs Null - What's the difference?
virus | null |
(archaic) Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc.
(pathology, microbiology, virology) A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism.
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A disease caused by these organisms.
(computing) A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as CDs, USB drives, floppy disks, etc., often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.
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 virus and null
is that virus is virus while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.virus
English
Noun
(en-noun) (wikipedia virus) (Virus)Katie L. Burke
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- Viruses are the smallest and most simplified forms of life.
Usage notes
Viri is a nonstandard plural and is only used jocularly.Synonyms
* See alsoHyponyms
* DNA virus * RNA virusDerived terms
* viroid * viralSee also
* prionExternal links
* (Plural of virus) * (Virus) * (Computer virus) * (Virus) ----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.
