Abeyance vs Null - What's the difference?
abeyance | null |
(legal) Expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title.
Suspension; temporary suppression; dormant condition.
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, page 376:
(heraldry) Expectancy of a title, its right in existence but its exercise suspended.
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 abeyance and null
is that abeyance is (legal) expectancy; condition of ownership of real property being undetermined; lapse in succession of ownership of estate, or title while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.abeyance
English
Noun
(en noun)- The proceeds of the estate shall be held in abeyance in an escrow account until the minor reaches age twenty-one.
- When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance . -Blackstone
- Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance .
- The broad pennant of a commodore first class has been in abeyance since 1958, together with the rank.
References
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.