Involution vs Null - What's the difference?
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entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy
:* 1968': ‘Gomez,’ said the mortician, ‘is an expert only on the '''involutions of his own rectum.’ — Anthony Burgess, ''Enderby Outside
(mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.
* 1996 , Alfred J. Menezes et al, Handbook of Applied Cryptography , CRC Press, page 10:
(physiology) The regressive changes in the body occurring with old age.
(mathematics, obsolete) A power: the result of raising one number to the power of another.
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 involution and null
is that involution is entanglement; a spiralling inwards; intricacy while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.involution
English
Noun
(en noun)- Involutions have the property that they are their own inverses.
Derived terms
* involutional * involutionarySee also
* dual * selfdualnull
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.