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Functionalism vs Null - What's the difference?

functionalism | null |

As nouns the difference between functionalism and null

is that functionalism is (architecture) a doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

functionalism

English

Noun

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  • (architecture) A doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction
  • (philosophy) The definition of mental states in terms of their causes and effects
  • (social science) The idea that social and cultural cohesion are a function of the interdependence and interactions of the institutions of a society
  • (psychology) A general school of thought that considers psychological phenomena in terms of their role in adaptation to the person's environment
  • null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----