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Dissociate vs Null - What's the difference?

dissociate | null |

As a verb dissociate

is to make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

dissociate

English

Verb

  • To make unrelated; to sever a connection; to separate.
  • A number of group members wish to dissociate themselves from the majority.
  • To part; to stop associating.
  • After the big fight, the gang totally dissociated from each other.
  • (chemistry) To separate compounds into simpler component parts, usually by applying heat or through electrolysis.
  • We dissociated the lead iodide into its elements by heating
  • (chemistry) To undergo dissociation.
  • (psychology) To undergo dissociation.
  • Gerald checked himself into the hospital because he was dissociating .

    Antonyms

    * associate

    Derived terms

    * dissociation * dissociative

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----