Irrespective vs Null - What's the difference?
irrespective | null |
heedless, regardless
* 1922 , , Miss Mapp , :
Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial.
* Rogers
(obsolete) disrespectful
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 irrespective
is heedless, regardless.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.irrespective
English
Adjective
(-)- That alone, apart from Mr. Wyse’s old-fashioned notions on the subject, made telephoning impossible, for your summons was usually answered by his cook, who instantly began scolding the butcher irrespective and disrespectful of whom you were.
- an irrespective judgment
- According to this doctrine, it must be resolved wholly into the absolute, irrespective will of God.
Derived terms
* irregardless (by confusion and conflation with regardless) * irrespective ofSee also
* irregardless English words affected by confusionnull
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.