Reconcile vs Null - What's the difference?
reconcile | null |
To restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.
To make things compatible or consistent.
* Alexander Pope
* John Locke
To make the net difference in credits and debits of a financial account agree with the balance.
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 reconcile
is to restore a friendly relationship; to bring back to harmony.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.reconcile
English
(reconciliation)Verb
(reconcil)- to reconcile people who have quarrelled
- to reconcile differences
- Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, / Considered singly, or beheld too near; / Which, but proportioned to their light or place, / Due distance reconciles to form and grace.
- The great men among the ancients understood how to reconcile manual labour with affairs of state.
Derived terms
* reconciliationnull
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.
