Adjoint vs Null - What's the difference?
adjoint | null |
(mathematics) used in several situations with a meaning similar to helping
(mathematics) A matrix in which each element is the cofactor of an associated element of another matrix.
(geometry) A curve such that any point of another curve C'' of multiplicity ''r'' has multiplicity at least ''r''–1 on the adjoint. Sometimes the multiple points of ''C are required to be ordinary, and if this condition is not satisfied the term "sub-adjoint" is used.
An assistant mayor of a French commune.
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 adjoint and null
is that adjoint is (mathematics) a matrix in which each element is the cofactor of an associated element of another matrix while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective adjoint
is (mathematics) used in several situations with a meaning similar to helping.adjoint
English
(wikipedia adjoint)Adjective
(-)Derived terms
() * adjoint matrix * adjoint operator * adjoint functor * coadjoint * self-adjointNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
() * biadjointReferences
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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.