Affix vs Null - What's the difference?
affix | null |
That which is affixed; an appendage.
(linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; formerly applied only to suffixes (also called postfixes), the term as now used comprises prefixes, suffixes, infixes, circumfixes, and suprafixes.
(mathematics) The complex number associated to the point in the Gauss Plane with coordinates .
To attach.
* Ray
To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.
To fix or fasten figuratively; with on'' or ''upon .
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 affix and null
is that affix is affix while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.affix
English
(wikipedia affix)Noun
(es)Antonyms
* nonaffixHyponyms
* (affixes)Coordinate terms
* cliticVerb
(es)- Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food
- to affix''' a stigma to a person; to '''affix ridicule or blame to somebody
- to affix''' a syllable to a word; to '''affix''' a seal to an instrument; to '''affix one's name to a writing
- eyes affixed upon the ground
- (Spenser)
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.