Concurrent vs Null - What's the difference?
concurrent | null |
Happening at the same time; simultaneous.
* Tyndall
Belonging to the same period; contemporary.
Acting in conjunction; agreeing in the same act or opinion; contibuting to the same event of effect.
* Sir J. Davies
* Bishop Warburton
Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects.
(geometry) Meeting in one point.
Running alongside one another on parallel courses; moving together in space.
(computing) Involving more than one thread of computation.
One who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause.
* Dr. H. More
One pursuing the same course, or seeking the same objects; hence, a rival; an opponent.
* Holland
One of the supernumerary days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.
(Webster 1913)
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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 concurrent and null
is that concurrent is one who, or that which, concurs; a joint or contributory cause while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective concurrent
is happening at the same time; simultaneous.concurrent
English
of building models [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Concurrent_testings].Adjective
(en adjective)- changes concurrent with the visual changes in the eye
- (Francis Bacon)
- I join with these laws the personal presence of the king's son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.
- the concurrent testimony of antiquity
- the concurrent jurisdiction of courts
Coordinate terms
* leading, laggingDerived terms
* concurrent indicator * concurrentlyNoun
(en noun)- To all affairs of importance there are three necessary concurrents time, industry, and faculties.
- Menander had no concurrent in his time that came near unto him.
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.