Formally vs Null - What's the difference?
formally | null |
In a formal manner.
In accordance with official procedure.
In accordance with rigorous rules.
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 an adverb formally
is in a formal manner.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.formally
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- He dressed quite formally''' - too '''formally for the occasion.
- He formally filed a complaint, which involved much paperwork.
- He proved it formally but gave his students no intuitive feel for the matter.
Antonyms
* informallySee also
* address (someone) formally * officiallynull
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.