Miscegenation vs Null - What's the difference?
miscegenation | null |
(chiefly, US) The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.
(figuratively) A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.
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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 miscegenation and null
is that miscegenation is (chiefly|us) the mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.miscegenation
English
(wikipedia miscegenation)Noun
(-)Usage notes
Often considered offensive, pejorative, or old-fashioned, alternative terms are more common in contemporary use, such as interracial, interethnic or , multiracial, or mixed for persons. In scholarly use, miscegenation is particularly used for historical discussions, and in current use has been repurposed by academics to analyze the emotions, reactions, and anxieties held by people about interracial couplings.Synonyms
* miscegenyDerived terms
* miscegenative / miscegenetic / miscegenic / miscegenistic / miscegenous (adj.) * miscegenationist / miscegenist (adj. and n.) * antimiscegenation (US)See also
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null
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.