Ternary vs Null - What's the difference?
ternary | null |
Made up of three things; treble, triadic, triple, triplex
Arranged in groups of three
(mathematics) To the base three
* Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming
(mathematics) Having three variables
(chemistry) Containing, or consisting of, three different parts, as elements, atoms, groups, or radicals, which are regarded as having different functions or relations in the molecule.
A group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce
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 ternary and null
is that ternary is a group of three things; a trio, threesome or tierce while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective ternary
is made up of three things; treble, triadic, triple, triplex.ternary
English
Adjective
(-)- Perhaps the prettiest number system of all is the balanced ternary notation.
- Sodic hydroxide, NaOH, is a ternary compound.
Synonyms
* trinaryDerived terms
* ternary alloy * ternary code * ternary complex * ternary compound * ternary computer * ternary diagram * ternary expansion * ternary form * ternary Golay code * ternary Golay conjecture * ternary incremental representation * ternary logic * ternary name * ternary notation * ternary numeral system * ternary operation * ternary operator * ternary plot * ternary pulse code modulation * ternary quantic * ternary search * ternary search tree * ternary signal * ternary system * ternary treeSee also
* unary * binaryNoun
(ternaries)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.