Wiper vs Null - What's the difference?
wiper | null |
someone who wipes
* Robert Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin
something, such as a towel, that is used for wiping
something, such as a windscreen wiper, that is designed for wiping
a movable electric contact in some device
(nautical) A junior role in the engine room of a ship, someone who wipes down machinery and generally keeps it clean.
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 wiper and null
is that wiper is someone who wipes while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.wiper
English
Noun
(en noun)- So, Willy, let you and me be wipers / Of scores out with all men — especially pipers!
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.