Exceeding vs Null - What's the difference?
exceeding | null |
(archaic) prodigious
(archaic) exceptional, extraordinary
(archaic) extreme
(archaic) Exceedingly.
*, II.7:
* 1905 , The Myths of Plato , page 442:
(archaic) The situation of being in excess.
* 1812 , Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command , page 198:
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 exceeding and null
is that exceeding is (archaic) the situation of being in excess while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb exceeding
is .As an adjective exceeding
is (archaic) prodigious.As an adverb exceeding
is (archaic) exceedingly.exceeding
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Adverb
(en adverb)- Those which write the life of Augustus Cæsar , note this in his military discipline, that he was exceeding liberall and lavish in his gifts to such as were of any desert.
Usage notes
* The adverbial usage was very common in the 17th and 18th centuries, but is now considered archaic.Noun
(en noun)- I have to say it appears to me in the first place, that the exceedings of expenditure beyond estimate appearing upon that account, do not give to the Grand Canal company the slightest legal right to any public money
References
*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.