Maternal vs Null - What's the difference?
maternal | null |
Of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother, motherly.
Related through the mother, or her side of the family.
(anatomy, medicine) Derived from the mother as opposed to the foetus during pregnancy.
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 maternal
is of or pertaining to a mother; having the characteristics of a mother, motherly.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.maternal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His weakness seemed to bring out her maternal instincts.
- Toby is my maternal uncle.
Derived terms
* maternal aunt * maternal cousin * maternal death * maternal grandfather * maternal grandmother * maternal uncleAntonyms
* paternal – fatherCoordinate terms
* avuncular – uncle * materteral – aunt * paternal – fathernull
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.