Prepositional vs Null - What's the difference?
prepositional | null |
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
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(grammar) Of the prepositional case.
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 prepositional and null
is that prepositional is (grammar) the prepositional case while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective prepositional
is of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.prepositional
English
Adjective
(-)- Although we have concentrated on Prepositions which take zero Complements, NP Complements, or clausal Complements in our discussion above, there seems no reason in principle to exclude the possibility of Prepositions taking prepositional Complements. And it may well be that items such as those italicised below are Prepositions which subcategorise a PP Complement headed by of'':
(80) (a) He stayed at home ''because'' [of the strike]
(80) (b) He fell ''out'' [of the window]
(80) (c) Few people ''outside'' [of the immediate family] know
(80) (d) %It fell ''off [of the table] (dialectal)
Derived terms
* prepositional case * prepositionallynull
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.