Apportion vs Null - What's the difference?
apportion | null |
To divide and distribute portions of a whole.
Specifically, to do so in a fair and equitable manner; to allocate proportionally.
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 a verb apportion
is to divide and distribute portions of a whole.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.apportion
English
Verb
(en verb)- The controlling party had apportioned the voting districts such that their party would be favored in the next election.
- The children were required to dump all of their Halloween candy on the table so that their parents could apportion it among them.
Derived terms
* unapportioned * apportionmentSynonyms
* (divide and distribute ): allocate, allot, dispense, parcel out, share outAntonyms
* (divide and distribute ): amass, concentrate, consolidate, gather, reassemblenull
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.