Formative vs Null - What's the difference?
formative | null |
Of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.
Capable of forming something.
(biology) Capable of producing new tissue.
(grammar) Pertaining to the inflection of words.
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 formative and null
is that formative is (grammar) a language unit that has morphological function while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective formative
is of or pertaining to the formation and subsequent growth of something.formative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- My formative years were spent in an inner city.
Derived terms
* formativenessnull
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.