Coextensive vs Null - What's the difference?
coextensive | null |
Having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.
Occurring over the same period of time; contemporaneous.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
(logic) Having the same extension—the object or set of objects to which a term refers.
* {{quote-book, year=1995, title=A Companion to Metaphysics, author=Jaegwon Kim, Ernest Sosa
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 an adjective coextensive
is having the same spatial limits or boundaries; sharing the same area.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.coextensive
English
Alternative forms
* co-extensiveAdjective
(-)- The city and county of San Francisco are coextensive .
- His life is almost co-extensive with one of the most disastrous periods in Roman history.
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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.