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Paucal vs Null - What's the difference?

paucal | null |

As nouns the difference between paucal and null

is that paucal is (grammar) a language form referring to a few of something (three to around ten), as a small group of people; contrast singular'', ''dual'', ''trial'' and ''plural while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective paucal

is characterized by having a small number, greater than two, of (usually equivalent) components.

paucal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Characterized by having a small number, greater than two, of (usually equivalent) components.
  • (grammar) pertaining to a language form referring to a few of something (three to around ten), as a small group of people; contrast singular'', ''dual'', ''trial'' and ''plural .
  • first-person paucal
    paucal number
    paucal and plural pronouns

    Antonyms

    * (few) (l)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (grammar) a language form referring to a few of something (three to around ten), as a small group of people; contrast singular'', ''dual'', ''trial'' and ''plural .
  • Derived terms

    * (l)

    See also

    *

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----