Pendent vs Null - What's the difference?
pendent | null |
Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 71:
* 1986 , Bryant W Rossiter, Roger C Baetzold, Investigations of Surfaces and Interfaces
pending in various senses.
either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
(label) Projecting over something; overhanging.
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 pendent and null
is that pendent is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective pendent
is dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.pendent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders
- An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.
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.