Known vs Null - What's the difference?
known | null |
identified as a specific type; renowned, famous.
* He was a known pickpocket.
ed, accepted, familiar.
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In algebra, a variable or constant whose value is already determined.
Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.
* 2012 , Thomas Dougherty, Antibiotic Discovery and Development (volume 1, page 39)
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 known and null
is that known is in algebra, a variable or constant whose value is already determined while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective known
is identified as a specific type; renowned, famous.As a verb known
is .known
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Adjective
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Antonyms
* unknownVerb
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* (know)Noun
(en noun)- The biological dereplication tool may identify major knowns in a mixture, but it may miss novel minor components.
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* English irregular past participlesnull
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.