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Deduction vs Null - What's the difference?

deduction | null |

As nouns the difference between deduction and null

is that deduction is deduction (all meanings) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

deduction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed
  • A sum that can be removed from tax calculations; something that is written off
  • You might want to donate the old junk and just take the deduction .
  • (logic) A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
  • A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out
  • He arrived at the deduction that the butler didn't do it.
  • The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason
  • Through his powers of deduction , he realized that the plan would never work.

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----