Digitigrade vs Null - What's the difference?
digitigrade | null |
(of an animal) Walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.
(zoology, specifically) Belonging to the of the taxonomic order Carnivora.
(of feet or a manner of walking) Of, resembling, or pertaining to that of a digitigrade animal.
(chiefly, in the plural) A digitigrade animal, such as a dog or a cat; an animal that walks on its toes.
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 digitigrade and null
is that digitigrade is (chiefly|in the plural) a digitigrade animal, such as a dog or a cat; an animal that walks on its toes while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective digitigrade
is (of an animal) walking on the toes, putting the weight of the body mainly on the ball of the foot, with the back of the foot, or heel, raised.digitigrade
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Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* plantigradeDerived terms
* digitigradismNoun
(en noun)Antonyms
* plantigradeSee also
* (wikipedia "digitigrade")References
* “digitigrade, a. ''and'' n.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989 ----
null
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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.