Perspicuity vs Null - What's the difference?
perspicuity | null |
Clarity, lucidity, especially in expression; the state or characteristic of being perspicuous.
* 1905 , (George Bernard Shaw), The Irrational Knot , ch. 18,
Perspicacity; insight.
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(rare) Transparency; translucence.
* 1900 , (w), The Touchstone , ch. 11,
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 perspicuity and null
is that perspicuity is clarity, lucidity, especially in expression; the state or characteristic of being perspicuous while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.perspicuity
English
Alternative forms
* perspicuite (rel-mid5) * perspicuitie (rel-mid5) * perspicuitye (rel-mid5) * perspicuyte (rel-mid5) * perspycuitieNoun
- Whether through the first officer's want of perspicuity or my own stupidity, I was not a bit the wiser for the explanation.
The Stupid Spy," Time , 19 Mar,
- Thompson, a high school dropout, said with rare perspicuity that he doubted the FBI would hire him.
- It must have been on some such day of harsh sunlight, the incisive February brightness that gives perspicuity without warmth.
Synonyms
* perspicuousnessReferences
* “perspicuity]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989 * “
perspicuity, n.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [draft revision; Mar. 2010 * * * *
"perspicuity"] in Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition© & (P)2007 Microsoft Corporation. * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.
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.