Counterpart vs Null - What's the difference?
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Either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another.
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(legal) A duplicate of a legal document.
One which resembles another
One which has corresponding functions or characteristics.
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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 counterpart and null
is that counterpart is either of two parts that fit together, or complement one another while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.counterpart
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Those brass knobs and their hollow counterparts interlock perfectly
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Synonyms
* equivalent * opposite number * pendantnull
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.