Transcend vs Null - What's the difference?
transcend | null |
to pass beyond the limits of something.
* Francis Bacon
to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel.
* Dryden
(obsolete) To climb; to mount.
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.
In transitive terms the difference between transcend and null
is that transcend is to surpass, as in intensity or power; to excel while null is to nullify; to annul.As a noun null is
a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As an adjective null is
having no validity, "null and void.transcend
English
Verb
(en verb)- such popes as shall transcend their limits
- How much her worth transcended all her kind.
- lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds
- (Howell)
Derived terms
* transcendence * transcendency * transcendent * transcendental * transcendentalism * transcendentalist * transcendentally * transcendingExternal links
* *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.