Binominal vs Null - What's the difference?
binominal | null |
(biology, taxonomy) consisting of two names
(biology, taxonomy) pertaining to the noun binomen
(biology, taxonomy) pertaining to the nomenclature system for the rank of species in biological taxonomy
:: The principle of binominal nomenclature is important in the ICZN.
(biology, taxonomy) a scientific name, at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
* See species name for usage and example.
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 binominal and null
is that binominal is (biology|taxonomy) a scientific name, at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective binominal
is (biology|taxonomy) consisting of two names.binominal
English
(Binominal nomenclature)Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* (sense) binomialNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (sense) binomen * (sense) binomial * (sense) binomial name * (sense) binominal name * (sense) species namenull
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.