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Intensive vs Null - What's the difference?

intensive | null |

As nouns the difference between intensive and null

is that intensive is (linguistics) form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective intensive

is thorough, to a great degree, with intensity.

intensive

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Thorough, to a great degree, with intensity.
  • She was moved to the intensive care unit of the hospital.
  • *
  • Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
  • Demanding, requiring a great amount.
  • This job is difficult because it is so labour-intensive .
  • Highly concentrated.
  • I took a three-day intensive course in finance.
  • (obsolete) Stretched; allowing intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.
  • Characterized by persistence; intent; assiduous.
  • (grammar) Serving to give force or emphasis.
  • an intensive verb or preposition

    See also

    * extensive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) Form of a word with a stronger or more forceful sense than the root on which the intensive is built.
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    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 ----