Multiple vs Null - What's the difference?
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Having more than one element, part, component, or function, particularly many.
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* 14, 21 and 70 are multiples of 7
(finance) Price-earnings ratio.
One of a set of the same thing; a duplicate.
A single individual who has multiple personalities.
* 2010 , Ann M. Garvey, Ann's Multiple World of Personality: Regular No Cream, No Sugar
* 2000 , Henk Driessen, ?Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification (page 115)
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 multiple
is multiple.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.multiple
English
(wikipedia multiple)Adjective
(en adjective)Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Antonyms
* (many) (l) (rare)Derived terms
* Law of multiple proportion (Law of Dalton) * multiple algebra * multiple conjugation * multiple exposure * multiple fruits * multiple orgasm * multiple starNoun
(en noun)- I had seen its first show when it was a freebie, but I thought it made multiples in general look silly – no one changes clothes THAT much!
- Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.
Derived terms
* common multiple * least common multiplenull
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.