Abduction vs Null - What's the difference?
abduction | null |
Leading away; a carrying away.
(physiology) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. (rfex)
(logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
* 2005 , Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction , page 256:
The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
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 abduction and null
is that abduction is leading away; a carrying away while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.abduction
English
(wikipedia abduction)Noun
(en noun)- The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction , and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.
- the abduction of a child
Usage notes
* In Gregg shorthand (version: ) the word is represented: a - b - d - u - k - shSynonyms
* (sense) kidnapping * (logic) retroduction * (determining most plausible explanation) retroductionAntonyms
* (physiology) adductionDerived terms
* alien abductionReferences
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.