Derive vs Null - What's the difference?
derive | null |
To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, title= (logic) To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
(linguistics) To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
(chemistry) To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
To originate or stem (from).
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
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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.
In transitive terms the difference between derive and null
is that derive is to obtain or receive (something) from something else while null is to nullify; to annul.As a noun null is
a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void.derive
English
Verb
(deriv)Sarah Glaz
Ode to Prime Numbers, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
How to Be Manipulative, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
- For fear it [water] choke up the pitsthey [the workman] derive it by other drains.
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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.
