Filicide vs Null - What's the difference?
filicide | null |
A person who kills his or her own child.
* 1982 , , Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 287:
The killing of one's own child.
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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 filicide and null
is that filicide is a person who kills his or her own child while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.filicide
English
(wikipedia filicide)Noun
- Ned is running, panicked, [...] running for the cold hard road and the sanctuary of the Brunch farm like a filicide caught in the act.
Usage notes
Infanticide is the usual English term, especially if the victim is at or near infancy. Filicide implies specifically the killing of one's own son or daughter, especially biological and if the victim lived past infancy.See also
* altruistic filicide * familicide * fratricide * homicide * parricide * sororicide * suicide * uxoricide * abortion, infanticide, neonaticide, prolicidenull
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.