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writable | null |

As an adjective writable

is capable of being written.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

writable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Capable of being written.
  • Are sign languages writable ?
  • Capable of being written to.
  • The file is writable only for users in the admin group.
    I burned my family's vacation photos onto a writable CD.
  • * 2013 , Patrick Alessi, Professional iOS Database Application Programming
  • The following code snippet shows how to check whether a writable database already exists, and if not, create an editable copy.
  • (programming) mutable
  • * 2009 , Randi J. Rost, ?Bill M. Licea-Kane, ?Dan Ginsburg, OpenGL Shading Language
  • In general, writable variables must have unique instances per processor executing a shader and therefore cannot be shared.

    Antonyms

    * (computing) read-only

    Alternative spellings

    * writeable English autological terms

    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 ----