Sequent vs Null - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
*1860 , ,
*:Why are your songs all wild and bitter sad
*:As funeral dirges with the orphans' cries?
*:Each night since first the world was made hath had
*:A sequent day to laugh it down the skies.
That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent (to), (on), (upon).
*c. 1604 , (William Shakespeare), Measure for Measure :
*:But let my Triall, be mine owne Confession: / Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, / Is all the grace I beg.
*1897 , (Henry James), What Maisie Knew :
*:Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted.
Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.
*c. 1603 , (William Shakespeare), Othello , I.2:
*:The Gallies Haue sent a dozen sequent Messengers / This very night, at one anothers heeles: / And many of the Consuls, rais'd and met, / Are at the Dukes already.
Something that follows in a given sequence.
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.30:
*:The One is somewhat shadowy. It is sometimes called God, sometimes the Good; it transcends Being, which is the first sequent upon the One.
(logic) An element of a sequence, usually a sequence in which every entry is an axiom or can be inferred from previous elements.
(obsolete) A follower.
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 sequent and null
is that sequent is something that follows in a given sequence while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective sequent
is (obsolete) that comes after in time or order; subsequent.sequent
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(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.