Indigenous vs Null - What's the difference?
indigenous | null |
(chiefly, of living things) Born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.
* 1862 , , "Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree":
Innate, inborn.
* 1852 , , Uncle Tom's Cabin , ch. 18:
* 1883 , , "Stephen Archer" in Stephen Archer and Other Tales :
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 an adjective indigenous
is (chiefly|of living things) born or engendered in, native to a land or region, especially before an intrusion.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.indigenous
English
Adjective
(-)- Not only the Indian, but many indigenous insects, birds, and quadrupeds, welcomed the apple-tree to these shores.
- She was a native and essential cook, as much as Aunt Chloe,—cooking being an indigenous talent of the African race.
- He had all the tricks of a newspaper boy indigenous in him.
Synonyms
* (born or engendered in) aboriginal, autochthonous, nativeDerived terms
* indigenity * indigenously * indigenousness * nonindigenousnull
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.