Forthcoming vs Null - What's the difference?
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(not comparable) Approaching or about to take place.
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Available when needed.
Considerate and affable; willing to cooperate.
Something that is yet to come.
* 1831 , Archibald Mackerrell, An Apology for the Gift of Tongues and Interpretation
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 forthcoming and null
is that forthcoming is something that is yet to come while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective forthcoming
is (not comparable) approaching or about to take place.forthcoming
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I shall vote in the forthcoming election.
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- The money was not forthcoming .
- I am really a forthcoming person.
Derived terms
* forthcomingnessNoun
(en noun)- The reader, has had presented to him things not belonging to time or mortality, but awful realities issuing out from eternity, the audible forthcomings of a present living God.
Anagrams
*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.