Preponderate vs Null - What's the difference?
preponderate | null |
To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
* Glanvill
To overpower by stronger or moral power.
*
(obsolete) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
* Fuller
To exceed in weight; hence, to predominate
* {{quote-book, year=1861, author=, title=Utilitarianism, chapter=, edition=
, passage=
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 preponderate
is to outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.preponderate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(preponderat)- An inconsiderable weight, by distance from the centre of the balance, will preponderate greater magnitudes.
- The desire to spare Christian blood preponderates him for peace.
citation
References
* *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.