Zapper vs Null - What's the difference?
zapper | null |
(colloquial) A remote control for a television.
A device that electrocutes ("zaps") with a high voltage, e.g. a bug zapper.
(figuratively, by extension) Anything that exterminates.
* 1989 , Microtimes (volume 6, page 140)
* 2009 , Jeffrey Bernstein, Liking the Child You Love
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 zapper and null
is that zapper is (colloquial) a remote control for a television while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.zapper
English
Noun
(en noun)- The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper .
- If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick
- You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper .
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.