nullability
The state or property of being nullable.
Noun
- The state or property of being nullable.
- When this is not explicitly defined, a user-defined data type or a column definition will use the default setting for nullability. - 1999, Brad McGehee, SQL Server 7 Administration, page 174:
- Because nullability is one of a number of attributes of any particular database field, and because dealing with changes in nullability is no different from dealing with name and data type changes, the idea of making a...
- We know that Kotlin requires us to explicitly define references that can hold null values. Java on the other hand is much more lenient about nullability, so we may wonder how Kotlin handles types coming from Java...
Origin
Etymology tree English null Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Proto-Italic *-tāts Latin -tās Latin -abilitas Middle French -abletébor. Middle English -ablete English -ability English nullability From null + -ability.