Practic vs Null - What's the difference?
practic | null |
(archaic) Practical.
*, II.i.4.3:
(obsolete) Cunning, crafty.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
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 practic and null
is that practic is a person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective practic
is (archaic) practical.practic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They that intend the practic cure of melancholy, saith Duretus in his notes to Hollerius, set down nine peculiar scopes or ends […].
- she vsed hath the practicke paine / Of this false footman [...].
Derived terms
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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.