Simplex vs Null - What's the difference?
simplex | null |
Single, simple; not complex.
(telecommunications) unidirectional
An analogue in any dimension of the triangle or tetrahedron: the convex hull of n+1'' points in ''n -dimensional space.
(linguistics) A simple word, one without affixes.
* 1978 , Helga Harries-Delisle, Contrastive Emphasis and Cleft Sentences'', in ''Universals of Human Language , edited by Joseph H. Greenberg, ISBN 0804709696, page 460:
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 simplex and null
is that simplex is a simplex, a simple word without affixes, though in german it may have morphemes of inflection while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.simplex
English
(wikipedia simplex)Adjective
(-)Antonyms
* (simple) complex * (unidirectional) duplex (bidirectional)Coordinate terms
(unidirectional) * half-duplex * full-duplexNoun
(en-noun)- The only indication that 139. is a simplex is the sentence intonation and the absence of a break between the verb and the subject.
Derived terms
* simplicialSee also
* complexnull
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.