Perceivable vs Null - What's the difference?
perceivable | null |
Capable of being perceived; discernible.
*1818 , , Northanger Abbey , ch. 5,
*:Every search for him was equally unsuccessful, in morning lounges or evening assemblies; neither at the Upper nor Lower Rooms, at dressed or undressed balls, was he perceivable .
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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 an adjective perceivable
is capable of being perceived; discernible.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.perceivable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Man in Pakistan: I'm on list," USA Today , 1 Jan. (retrieved 2 Nov. 2008),
- The only perceivable difference between the AP and FBI photos is that the man in the FBI photo is clean-shaven and shorter-haired.
Synonyms
*perceptible, observableDerived terms
* perceivableness *perceivability *perceivablynull
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.