Parity vs Null - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Equality; comparability of strength or intensity.
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(mathematics, countable) A set with the property of having all of its elements belonging to one of two disjoint subsets, especially a set of integers split in subsets of even'' and ''odd elements.
(mathematics, countable) The classification of an element of a set with parity into one of the two sets.
(physics, countable) Symmetry of interactions under spatial inversion.
(games, countable) In reversi, the last move within a given sector of the board.
(medicine, countable) The number of times a woman has given birth.
(agriculture, countable) The number of times a sow has farrowed.
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
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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 parity and null
is that parity is (uncountable) equality; comparability of strength or intensity or parity can be (medicine|countable) the number of times a woman has given birth while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.parity
English
(wikipedia parity)Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
- Altogether, Microsoft claims a 99% feature parity between 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
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- Parity is always preserved in such operations.
- The particles' parities can switch at random.
Antonyms
* chiralityDerived terms
* brand parity * parity bitEtymology 2
From (etyl) paritas, fromNoun
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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.