Calculus vs Null - What's the difference?
calculus | null |
(dated, countable) calculation, computation
(countable, mathematics) Any formal system in which symbolic expressions are manipulated according to fixed rules.
Differential calculus and integral calculus considered as a single subject; analysis.
(countable, medicine) A stony concretion that forms in a bodily organ.
(uncountable, dentistry) Deposits of calcium phosphate salts on teeth.
(countable) A decision-making method, especially one appropriate for a specialised realm.
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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 calculus and null
is that calculus is (dated|countable) calculation, computation while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.calculus
English
Noun
(wikipedia calculus)- lambda calculus
- predicate calculus
- renal calculus ( = kidney stone)
Synonyms
* (in analysis) infinitesimal calculus * (in medicine) stone * (in dentistry) dental calculus, tartarDerived terms
* calculus of moving surfaces * calculus of sums and differences * calculus of variations * dental calculus * differential calculus * felicific calculus * finite-difference calculus * fractional calculus * hedonic calculus * hedonistic calculus * implicational propositional calculus * infinitesimal calculus * integral calculus * join calculus * Kirby calculus * lambda calculus * logical calculus * multivariable calculus * noncalculus * operational calculus * pi-calculus * precalculus * predicate calculus * propositional calculus * tensor calculus * tuple calculus * utility calculusSee also
* algebra * analysis * concretion English nouns with irregular plurals ----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.