Sessile vs Null - What's the difference?
sessile | null |
(zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster”
(botany) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk.
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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 an adjective sessile
is (zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster”.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sessile
English
(wikipedia sessile)Adjective
(-)- The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk
Derived terms
* subsessileSynonyms
* (not free to move) attached, fixed, immobileAntonyms
* (not free to move) mobileAnagrams
* ----null
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.