Fratricide vs Null - What's the difference?
fratricide | null |
The killing of one's brother (or sister).
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A person who commits this crime.
* 1936 , H. A. L. Fisher, A History of Europe , Edward Arnold Publishers, p.376,
(military, by extension) The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.
* 1999 , Richard M. Swain,
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 fratricide and null
is that fratricide is the killing of one's brother (or sister) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.fratricide
English
(fratricide)Noun
(en noun)- The conversion of Russia to Christianity was effected, it would seem by a monster of cruelty and lust. That Vladimir (980–1015) was a fratricide , who maintained 3,500 concubines, has not prevented his canonization as a saint.
Lucky War: Third Army in Desert Storm, DIANE Publishing, page 180,
- From January on, Third Army also spent a good deal of energy trying to solve the problem of fratricide , the killing or injuring of one's own forces by what is ironically called 'friendly fire,'...
Derived terms
* fratricidalnull
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.