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Ascendant vs Null - What's the difference?

ascendant | null |

As adjectives the difference between ascendant and null

is that ascendant is rising, moving upward while null is having no validity, "null and void.

As nouns the difference between ascendant and null

is that ascendant is being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As a verb null is

to nullify; to annul.

ascendant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Rising, moving upward.
  • * Browne
  • The constellation about that time ascendant .
  • Surpassing or controlling.
  • * South
  • An ascendant spirit over him.
  • * John Stuart Mill
  • The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth.

    Noun

    (wikipedia ascendant) (en noun)
  • Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.
  • One man has the ascendant over another.
  • * Robertson
  • Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent.
  • An ancestor (antonym of descendant)
  • (Ayliffe)
  • Ascent; height; elevation.
  • * Temple
  • Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant .
  • (astrology) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
  • (Burke)

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----