Particulate vs Null - What's the difference?
particulate | null |
Composed of separate particles.
(genetics) Pertaining to heritable characteristics which are attributable discretely to either one or another of an offspring's parents, rather than a blend of the two.
*1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 41:
*:The rudiments of particulate inheritance were dimly understood already by the breeders of cattle and apples, but nobody was being systematic.
Any solid or liquid in a subdivided state, especially one that exhibits special characteristics which are negligible in the bulk material
:Particulates in engine oil can abrade moving parts.
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 particulate and null
is that particulate is any solid or liquid in a subdivided state, especially one that exhibits special characteristics which are negligible in the bulk material while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective particulate
is composed of separate particles.particulate
English
(wikipedia particulate)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* particulate matterNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
*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.