Spousal vs Null - What's the difference?
spousal | null |
of or relating to marriage
of or relating to a spouse, spouses; to the relationship between spouses
* 1592: William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
(obsolete, chiefly, in the plural) marriage; nuptials; espousal
* Dryden
* Chaucer
* Emerson
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 spousal and null
is that spousal is (obsolete|chiefly|in the plural) marriage; nuptials; espousal while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective spousal
is of or relating to marriage.spousal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There we shall consummate our spousal rites.
Derived terms
* spousal abuse * spousal supportNoun
(en noun)- The spousals of Hippolita.
- Boweth your head under that blissful yoke Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock.
- The spousals of the newborn year.
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.