Distributive vs Null - What's the difference?
distributive | null |
Relating to distribution.
Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
(mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
(logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
(grammar) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
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 distributive and null
is that distributive is (grammar) a distributive adjective or pronoun while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective distributive
is relating to distribution.distributive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- distributive justice
- (Jonathan Swift)
- If function f'' is distributive with respect to function ''g , then .
- If the operation is distributive with respect to the operation , then .
- a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as "each", "either", or "every"
- a distributive numeral, such as Latin "bini" (two by two)
Derived terms
* distributive latticenull
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.