Epithet vs Null - What's the difference?
epithet | null |
A term used to characterize a person or thing.
A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person.
An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, title=The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity?, author=Eric L. Goldstein
, passage=Part of this process was the elaboration of new terms for the Jew, especially the increasingly popular epithet “kike”.}}
(biology) A word in the scientific name of a taxon following the name of the genus or species. This applies only to formal names of plants, fungi and bacteria. In formal names of animals the corresponding term is the specific name.
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 epithet and null
is that epithet is a term used to characterize a person or thing while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.epithet
English
Noun
{{examples-right, sense=biology: part of scientific name of plants, fungi and bacteria, examples=*In Cannabis sativa'' the word ''sativa is a specific epithet . * In Festuca ovina'' subsp. ''guestphalica'' the word ''guestphalica is an infraspecific epithet .}} (en noun)Synonyms
* (descriptive substitute) cognomennull
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.