Accessary vs Null - What's the difference?
accessary | null |
(legal) Someone who accedes to some act, now especially a crime; one who contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.
(legal) Accompanying as a subordinate; additional; accessory; especially, uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See accessory.
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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 accessary and null
is that accessary is (legal) someone who accedes to some act, now especially a crime; one who contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective accessary
is (legal) accompanying as a subordinate; additional; accessory; especially, uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor see accessory.accessary
English
Alternative forms
* accessoryNoun
(accessaries)Derived terms
* accessary before the fact (legal) one who commands or counsels an offense, not being present at its commission. * accessary after the fact (legal) one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being present at the commission of the offense.Adjective
(en adjective)Usage notes
* "This word, as used in law, is spelt accessory'' by Blackstone and many others; but in this sense is spelt ''accessary'' by Bouvier, Burrill, Burns, Whishaw, Dane, and the Penny Cyclopedia; while in other senses it is spelt ''accessory''. In recent text-books on criminal law the distinction is not preserved, the spelling being either ''accessary'' or ''accessory''." - ''Webster, 1913 Since that time this trend has accelerated.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.