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Likeliness vs Null - What's the difference?

likeliness | null |

As nouns the difference between likeliness and null

is that likeliness is the condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

likeliness

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.
  • Likelihood, probability or chance of occurrence; plausibility or believability.
  • *2004 , Klaus-Martin Goeters, Aviation psychology: practice and research :
  • The proposed HEA is based on the assumption that each specific error has a certain impact on a system/aircraft state whilst the crew's likeliness to commit this error is decreasing with an increasing number of safeguards against it.
  • *2006 , David W. Embley, A. OlivĂ©, Sudha Ram, Conceptual modeling :
  • To determine the likeliness of an individual in a concept, a membership function is required.
  • Suitability; agreeableness.
  • *2004 , Peter Lipton, Inference to the best explanation :
  • A new competitor may decrease the likeliness of an old hypothesis, but it will usually not change its loveliness.
  • Likeness; similarity.
  • * 1727 , Robert South, Twelve Sermons
  • No surely, Reason is both the Gift and Image of God, and every Degree of its Improvement is a farther Degree of Likeliness to him.

    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 ----