Experiment vs Null - What's the difference?
experiment | null |
A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.
(obsolete) Experience, practical familiarity with something.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
To conduct an experiment.
(obsolete) To experience; to feel; to perceive; to detect.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
(obsolete) To test or ascertain by experiment; to try out; to make an experiment on.
* 1481 William Caxton, The Mirrour of the World 1.5.22:
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 experiment and null
is that experiment is experiment while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.experiment
English
(wikipedia experiment)Noun
(en noun)- Pilot [...] Vpon his card and compas firmes his eye, / The maisters of his long experiment , / And to them does the steddy helme apply [...].
Verb
(en verb)- The Earth, the which may have carried us about perpetually ... without our being ever able to experiment its rest.
- Til they had experimented whiche was trewe, and who knewe most.
Derived terms
* experimenterReferences
* ----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.