Necessary vs Null - What's the difference?
necessary | null |
needed, required
* Shakespeare
* Tillotson
Such as must be; not to be avoided; inevitable.
* Shakespeare
Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary.
(archaic, British) bathroom, toilet, loo
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 necessary and null
is that necessary is (archaic|british) bathroom, toilet, loo while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective necessary
is needed, required.necessary
English
(wikipedia necessary)Adjective
(en adjective)- 'Tis necessary he should die.
- A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds.
- Death, a necessary end, / Will come when it will come.
- Whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
Synonyms
* (needed) See also * (such as must be) inevitable, naturalAntonyms
* (needed) unnecessary * (such as must be) evitable, incidental, impossibleDerived terms
* necessarily * necessary conditionExternal links
*Noun
(necessaries)External links
* *Statistics
*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.
