Agnate vs Null - What's the difference?
agnate | null |
A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.
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Any paternal male relative.
Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
allied; akin
* Landor
(label) Having a similar semantic meaning.
*
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 agnate and null
is that agnate is a relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective agnate
is related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.agnate
English
Noun
(en noun)- A great grandfather is an agnate if he is your father’s father’s father.
Antonyms
* enateAdjective
(en adjective)- Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.
Synonyms
* agnatic, patrilinealDerived terms
* agnatic * agnationAnagrams
* ----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.