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implex | null |

As nouns the difference between implex and null

is that implex is a genealogical coefficient of a given genealogical tree; defined as the difference between the number of theoretical ancestors of a person and the number of his/her real ones in a given generation while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective implex

is intricate, involved, entangled, complicated, complex.

implex

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Intricate, involved, entangled, complicated, complex.
  • * Joseph Addison, essay in The Spectator , 9 February 1711/12:
    • The fable of every poem is, according to Aristotle’s division, either simple or implex'. It is called simple when there is no change of fortune in it; '''implex''', when the fortune of the chief actor changes from bad to good, or from good to bad. The ' implex fable is thought most perfect: I suppose, because it is more proper to stir up the passion of the reader, and to surprise him with a greater variety of accidents.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A genealogical coefficient of a given genealogical tree; defined as the difference between the number of theoretical ancestors of a person and the number of his/her real ones in a given generation.

    • Synonyms

    * pedigree collapse

    References

    * (adjective) ** Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary . Retrieved 25 February 2010, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Implex ** OED 2nd edition 1989 * (noun) ** Joao Dal Poz Neto & Marcio Ferriera da Silva, "MaqPar: A Homemade Tool for the Study of Kinship Networks" in Hvibrant , v.6, n.2, p.73, footnote 3; Retrieved 25 February 2010, from Google Docs website, original source file: [http://www.vibrant.org.br/downloads/v6n2_dalpozsilva.pdf]

    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)

    Related terms

    * annul

    See also

    * nil ----