Impracticable vs Null - What's the difference?
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Not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.
Of a passage or road: impassable.
(obsolete) Of a person or thing: unmanageable.
* {{quote-book, 1713, , The Fair Penitent
, passage=And yet this tough impracticable heart / Is govern'd by a dainty-finger'd girl ;
* {{quote-book, c. 1841, , Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, year_published=1960
, passage=H. is a person of extraordinary health & vigor, of unerring perception, & equal expression; and yet he is impracticable , and does not flow through his pen or (in any of our legitimate aqueducts) through his tongue.}}
(obsolete) An unmanageable person.
* {{quote-book, 1829, Henry Barkley Henderson, The Bengalee, or Sketches of Society and Manners in the East
, passage=They were not allowed, of course, to join us in the sitting room, partly that their practice might not be disturbed, but principally, that I was looked upon as an utter impracticable . }}
* {{quote-book, 1867, , Famous Americans of Recent Times
, passage=The strict constructionists had dwindled to a few impracticables , headed by John Randolph. }}
* {{quote-book, 1870, , Society and Solitude
, passage=Then there are the gladiators, to whom it is always a battle ; 'tis no matter on which side, they fight for victory; then the heady men, the egotists, the monotones, the steriles, and the impracticables .}}
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 impracticable and null
is that impracticable is (obsolete) an unmanageable person while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective impracticable
is not practicable; impossible or difficult in practice.impracticable
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(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
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(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.