Ens vs Null - What's the difference?
ens | null |
(philosophy) An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
* 1860 , John Henry Macmahon, A treatise on metaphysics: chiefly in reference to revealed religion , page 195:
Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle.
*2006 , (Philip Ball), The Devil's Doctor , Arrow 2007, p. 245:
*:Here he states that there are five ‘active principles’ – the five Enses' or '''''entia – that influence our bodies and give rise to disease […].
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 noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.ens
English
Etymology 1
From . See entity.Noun
(en-noun)- the Nature of the Supreme Ens
Etymology 2
Inflected forms.Noun
(head)Anagrams
* ----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.