Generic vs Null - What's the difference?
generic | null |
Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific.
:* "...the essence is that such self-describing poets describe what is in them, but not peculiar to them, – what is generic , not what is special and individual." — Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
Lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise.
(of a product or drug) Not having a brand name.
(biology, not comparable) Of or relating to a taxonomic genus.
(grammar) Specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene.
(computing) (Of program code) Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
(geometry, of a point) Having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
A product sold under a generic name
A wine that is a blend of several wines, or made from a blend of several grape varieties
(grammar) A term that specifies neither male nor female.
* 1998 , Jacqueline A. Dienemann, Nursing administration: managing patient care
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 generic and null
is that generic is a product sold under a generic name while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective generic
is very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific.generic
English
(wikipedia generic)Alternative forms
* generickAdjective
(en adjective)- Words like salesperson and firefighter are generic .
Synonyms
* (comprehensive) general * (lacking a brand) unbrandedAntonyms
* (comprehensive) specific, proprietary * (lacking a brand) non-generic, proprietary, brandedDerived terms
* genericity * genericnessNoun
(en noun)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.