Posited vs Null - What's the difference?
posited | null |
(posit)
2) Started by USAF Fighter pilots when needing to know the position of a wingman. I.e. Lead pilot would say "2-posit" and #2 would reply: "5 o'clock high". Also in use in commercial airlines. Some pilots respond "cleared into posit and hold" when cleared on to the runway.
Assume the existence of; to postulate.
* 1908 : ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by .
Propose for consideration or study; to suggest.
Put (something somewhere) firmly.
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 a verb posited
is (posit).As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.posited
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * *posit
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Usage notes
* (for meaningVerb
(en verb)- some who posit both this cause and besides this the source of movement, which we have got from some as single and from other as twofold.
Anagrams
*null
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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.