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Wacko vs Null - What's the difference?

wacko | null |

As nouns the difference between wacko and null

is that wacko is an amusingly eccentric or irrational person while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective wacko

is amusingly eccentric or irrational.

As an interjection wacko

is (british|dated) hurrah.

wacko

English

Alternative forms

* whacko

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • amusingly eccentric or irrational
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amusingly eccentric or irrational person.
  • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (British, dated) hurrah
  • * 1952 , Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings and Darbishire
  • *:"Wacko ! There's a whole pile of letters for me," Jennings cried excitedly, hopping from one foot to the other.
  • ----

    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 ----