Disquisition vs Null - What's the difference?
disquisition | null |
A lengthy, formal discourse that analyses or explains some topic; a dissertation or treatise.
* 1961 : PHILIP, J. A. Mimesis in the ''Sophistês'' of Plato . In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 455.
*1759 — , Theory of Moral Sentiments , page 187.
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 disquisition and null
is that disquisition is a lengthy, formal discourse that analyses or explains some topic; a dissertation or treatise while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.disquisition
English
Noun
(en noun)- In this disquisition of the third book Plato is concerned with the moral effects of artistic representation on the youth of his state.
- Upon this account political disquisitions , if just, and reasonable, and practicable, are of all the works of speculation the most useful.
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.