Emeritus vs Null - What's the difference?
emeritus | null |
Retired, but retaining an honorific version of previous title (especially "professor").
A person retired in this sense (feminine form emerita).
* 1955 , Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita :
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 emeritus and null
is that emeritus is a person retired in this sense (feminine form emerita) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective emeritus
is retired, but retaining an honorific version of previous title (especially "professor").emeritus
English
Adjective
(wikipedia emeritus) (-)Noun
(emeriti)- Oh, you veteran crime reporter, you grave old usher, you once popular policeman, now in solitary confinement after gracing that school crossing for years, you wretched emeritus read to by a boy!
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.