Prefixation vs Null - What's the difference?
prefixation | null |
(anatomy, of a nerve) The (l) or (l) of being (l).
(biology) (l) of (l) with a (l), as a (l) to the (l) of another fixative or to the use of a (l) treatment.
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 prefixation and null
is that prefixation is (linguistics) the adding of a prefix to a word or prefixation can be (anatomy|of a nerve) the (l) or (l) of being (l) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.prefixation
English
Etymology 1
First attested in 1889; formed as .Etymology 2
First attested in 1921; formed as .Noun
(en noun)References
* “prefi?xation]” in the [[w:Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford English Dictionary], second edition, 1989 (lists both homographs in one entry) * “
prefixation, n.''¹” in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , third edition, March 2007 (lists the linguistic term) * “
prefixation, n.''²” in the ''Oxford English Dictionary third edition, March 2007 (lists the anatomical and biological term)
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.