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Schematic vs Null - What's the difference?

schematic | null |

As nouns the difference between schematic and null

is that schematic is a drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective schematic

is represented simply.

schematic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • represented simply
  • sketchy, incomplete
  • * 1902 , , Varieties of Religious Experience ,
  • Dr. Starbuck gives an interesting, and it seems to me a true, account -- so far as conceptions so schematic can claim truth at all...
  • relating to a schema
  • *
  • Given the terminology we have introduced here, we can say that all of the bracketed phrases in (3) above are of the schematic form (4) below:
    (4)    Specifier + Head + Complement
    Now, we have already argued in the case of Noun Phrases that a Head Noun together with its Complement form an N-bar; and that this N-bar together with its Specifier ( = Determiner) forms an N-double-bar.

    Noun

    (wikipedia schematic) (en noun)
  • A drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level.
  • I'll have to study the schematics for the new integrated circuit before I can create a good layout.

    Synonyms

    * diagram

    Anagrams

    *

    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 ----