Equivalent vs Null - What's the difference?
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Similar or identical in value, meaning or effect; virtually equal.
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(mathematics) Of two sets, having a one-to-one correspondence; equinumerous.
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* 1950 , E. Kamke, Theory of Sets ,
* 2000 , N. L. Carothers, Real Analysis ,
* 2006 , Joseph Breuer, Introduction to the Theory of Sets ,
(mathematics) Relating to the corresponding elements of an equivalence relation.
(chemistry) Having the equal ability to combine.
(cartography) Of a map, equal-area.
(geometry) Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; applied to magnitudes.
Anything that is virtually equal to something else, or has the same value, force, etc.
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(chemistry) An equivalent weight.
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 equivalent and null
is that equivalent is equivalent while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective equivalent
is equivalent.equivalent
English
(wikipedia equivalent)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- For now to serve and to minister, servile and ministerial, are terms equivalent .
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- Finite sets A and B are equivalent sets only when n''(A) = ''n''(B) ''i.e. , the number of elements in A and B are equal.
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- All enumerable sets are equivalent to each other, but not to any finite set.
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- Equivalent' sets should, by rights, have the same "number" of elements. For this reason we sometimes say that '''equivalent sets have the same ''cardinality .
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- The equivalence theorem: If both M is equivalent''' to a subset N1 of N and N is '''equivalent''' to a subset M1 of M, then the sets M and N are '''equivalent to each other.
- A square may be equivalent to a triangle.
Usage notes
* (en-usage-equal)Derived terms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- He owned that, if the Test Act were repealed, the Protestants were entitled to some equivalent .
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.