Homolog vs Null - What's the difference?
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Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or a chromosome.
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(linguistics) A word shared by two languages or dialects.
(genetics) One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry.
(organic chemistry) A member of a homologous series
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 homolog and null
is that homolog is homologue (member of a homologous series) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.homolog
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Alternative forms
* homologueNoun
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null
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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.