Unary vs Null - What's the difference?
unary | null |
Consisting of or involving a single element or component.
(mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure or input; having domain of dimension 1.
(mathematics) The unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system.
(information theory) Unary coding, an entropy encoding for natural numbers.
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 unary and null
is that unary is (mathematics) the unary numeral system; the bijective base-1 numeral system while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective unary
is consisting of or involving a single element or component.unary
English
Adjective
(-)- Negation is a unary operation.
Noun
(unaries)Coordinate terms
* binary * ternarynull
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.