Predetermine vs Null - What's the difference?
predetermine | null |
To determine or decide in advance.
To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
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.
In transitive terms the difference between predetermine and null
is that predetermine is to doom by previous decree; to foredoom while null is to nullify; to annul.As a noun null is
a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void.predetermine
English
Verb
Usage notes
* The verb itself is not as common as the derived participial adjective predetermined.Synonyms
* (determine in advance) (l), (l)Derived terms
* (l) ----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.