Onto vs Null - What's the difference?
onto | null |
Upon; on top of.
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(mathematics) Being an onto function with a codomain of (see below).
(mathematics, of a function) Assuming each of the values in its codomain; having its range equal to its codomain.
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 onto and null
is that onto is grease while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective onto
is oily, greasy.onto
English
Alternative forms
* on toPreposition
(English prepositions)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
Adjective
(-)- Considered as a function on the real numbers, the exponential function is not onto .
Synonyms
* (mathematics) surjectiveSee also
* (mathematics) one-to-one, injective, bijectiveAnagrams
*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.