Connexion vs Null - What's the difference?
connexion | null |
(chiefly, UK)
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* 1978 , , “The fifth-century Athenian empire: A balance sheet”, in Peter D. A. Garnsey and C. R. Whittaker (editors), Imperialism in the Ancient World: The Cambridge University Research Seminar in Ancient History , Cambridge University Press (reprinted 2006), ISBN 0-521-03390-X,
* 1984' November 20, “Rugby Union: The Jaguars Make A Move To End Their Isolation Argentina turns to FIRA and the French '''connexion is set to benefit”, in ''The Times , page 21.
(UK, religion, historical) A circuit of prayer groups who employed travelling ministers alongside the regular ministers attached to each congregation.
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 connexion and null
is that connexion is (chiefly|uk) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.connexion
English
Alternative forms
* (abbreviation)Noun
(en noun)- I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons; because her rank and connexions suited him;
- Persuading the widow that my connexion with her husband's 'technical matters' was sufficient to entitle me to his manuscript, I bore the document away and
page 125,
- In this connexion , it is worth remembering that we are never told how the tribute was collected within the tributary state .
Usage notes
* This spelling has been rarely encountered in the United States since the 19th century. In the United Kingdom the spelling remained in common use until the mid-twentieth century, since which time its use has declined considerably. It is still a notable and accepted alternative spelling since it is retained by the British Methodist Church and some other organisations.External links
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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.