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reciprocal | null |

As nouns the difference between reciprocal and null

is that reciprocal is (arithmetic) of a number, the number obtained by dividing 1 by the given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective reciprocal

is of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.

reciprocal

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
  • reciprocal''' love; '''reciprocal duties
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let our reciprocal vows be remembered.
  • Mutually interchangeable.
  • * I. Watts
  • These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.
  • (grammar) Reflexive; applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to pronouns that express mutual action.
  • (math) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
  • contrary or opposite
  • Synonyms

    * mutual, two-way * contrary, opposite, converse, inverse, inverted, cross * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (arithmetic) Of a number, the number obtained by dividing 1 by the given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.
  • 0.5 is the reciprocal of 2.

    Synonyms

    * (in arithmetic) multiplicative inverse

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----