Accretion vs Null - What's the difference?
accretion | null |
The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.
* 1900 , , Chapter I,
The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
* To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion -
Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.
concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.
(biology) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.
(geology) The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.
(legal) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.
(legal) Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share percentage.
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 accretion and null
is that accretion is accretion while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.accretion
English
Noun
(en noun)- There might have been a slight accretion of the moss and lichen on the shingled roof.
- A mineral ... augments not by growth, but by accretion .
Synonyms
* growthAntonyms
* attritionDerived terms
* co-accretionReferences
*Anagrams
*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.