Equation vs Null - What's the difference?
equation | null |
(senseid)(mathematics) An assertion that two expressions are equal, expressed by writing the two expressions separated by an equal sign; from which one is to determine a particular quantity.
(astronomy) A small correction to observed values to remove the effects of systematic errors in an observation.
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 equation and null
is that equation is equation (assertion) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.equation
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(wikipedia equation)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
(Derived terms) * algebraic equation * Arrhenius equation * chemical equation * differential equation * Diophantine equation * Drake equation * integral equation * Kepler's equation * Lagrange's equations * linear equation * Navier-Stokes equation * parametric equation * partial differential equation * Pell's equation * personal equation * polynomial equation * quadratic equation * * Van der Waals equation * wave equationnull
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.