Tractable vs Null - What's the difference?
tractable | null |
Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable.
* 1792 , , A Vindication of the Rights of Woman , ch. 13:
* 1839 , Nicholas Nickleby , ch. 61:
* 1909 , , The Bronze Bell , ch. 18:
* 2008 , , Shadows Return , ISBN 9780553590081,
Capable of being shaped; malleable.
* 1866 , P. Le Neve Foster, "
(obsolete) Capable of being handled or touched; palpable; practicable; feasible; serviceable.
* 1707 , , "Moll Quarles's Answer to Mother Creswell of Famous Memory" in The Second Volume of the Works of Mr. Tho. Brown, containing Letters from the Dead to the Living both Serious and Comical , part three, page 184:
(mathematics) Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
* 1987 , Ira Horowitz, "Market Structure Implications of Export-Price Uncertainty," Managerial and Decision Economics , vol. 8, no. 2, p. 134:
(computer science) Of a decision problem, algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
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 tractable
is capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.tractable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I have always found horses, an animal I am attached to, very tractable when treated with humanity and steadiness.
- Of all the tractable , equal-tempered, attached, and faithful beings that ever lived, I believe he was the most so.
- [T]his matter of the vanishing bridge must have been arranged in order to put him in a properly subdued and tractable frame of mind.
p. 96:
- Some masters can be quite kind if you're meek and tractable .
Report on the Art-Workmanship Prizes", reprinted in Journal of the Society of Arts , March 2, 1966:
- I need not point out the advantages of modelling in a material as durable as stone. . . . Mixed up with just enough water to form a stiff paste, it accommodates itself to the touch of the modelling tool. . . . There are two inherent difficulties in using it—one, it is not so tractable as clay. . . .
- At lea?t five Hundred of the?e reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ran?acking our Hou?es, leaving me ?ometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ?o much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]
- This assumption is in the Raiffa and Schlaifer (1961, p. 72) spirit of using ‘a little ingenuity. . . to find a tractable function’ to quantify risk-preferences and probability judgments so as to make the analysis feasible.
Antonyms
* intractableReferences
*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.