Asexuality vs Null - What's the difference?
asexuality | null |
The state or quality of being asexual, that is:
# The state of not experiencing sexual attraction. Compare heterosexuality'', ''homosexuality'', ''bisexuality .
# The state of not having a sex or sexual organs.
#* 1971? , Roelof van den Broek, The Myth of the Phoenix , page 421:
# The quality (of a species or organism) of reproducing asexually.
#* 2003 , Gimme Hugh Walter, Insect Pest Management and Ecological Research , page 166:
#* 2009 , Chapter 13 of Lost Sex: The Evolutionary Biology of Parthenogenesis , Isa Schön, Koen Martens, Peter van Dijk (editors), page 263:
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 asexuality and null
is that asexuality is the state or quality of being asexual, that is: while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.asexuality
English
(wikipedia asexuality)Noun
(-)- The same holds for Vincentius Victor in his discussion of the asexuality' of the corporeal form of the soul. In Lactantius, who emphasizes the uncertainty concerning the sex of the phoenix, and in Zeno of Verona, who says that the phoenix is for itself both sexes, the background is again formed by the inferred ' asexuality of the phoenix.
- The asexuality of insects is, in almost all cases, known to be a derived condition. That is, their evolution was contingent on the sexuality of their ancestral forms.
- While interpreted as supporting the asexuality of bdelloids, [...]
See also
* *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.