Confix vs Null - What's the difference?
confix | null |
(linguistics) An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix affixed simultaneously to the root
*{{quote-book, 2005, Elizabeth Zeitoun, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, chapter=Tsou
, passage=As is demonstrated by m-as-ku, tens are derived from the confix m- ... -hu. }}
(linguistics, rare) An affix which is not divided, and which does not divide a root: thus, a prefix, suffix, or interfix
*{{quote-book, 1982, & Philip Luelsdorff, Towards a Language of Linguistics, url=, page=84
, passage=22. A PREFIX: a confix which precedes a root.}}
(obsolete) To make firm; to fix in a particular place or state
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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 confix and null
is that confix is (linguistics) an affix consisting of a prefix and suffix affixed simultaneously to the root while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb confix
is (obsolete) to make firm; to fix in a particular place or state.confix
English
(wikipedia confix)Noun
(es)citation
Synonyms
*(prefix-suffix unit) circumfix, ambifixCoordinate terms
*(affixes)Verb
(es)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.