Expedience vs Null - What's the difference?
expedience | null |
(uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.
* Sharp
Speed, haste or urgency.
* Shakespeare
* 2008 , ,
Something that is expedient.
(obsolete) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
* Shakespeare
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 expedience and null
is that expedience is (uncountable) the quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.expedience
English
Noun
- To determine concerning the expedience of action.
- Making hither with all due expedience .
Wigu: Day 13: Saturday in the Park
- We must spring into action with a relentless sense of expedience and determination!''
- Forwarding this dear expedience .
Synonyms
* (fitness or suitableness) expediency * expediencyReferences
* OED2 * * *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.