Adventitious vs Undefined - What's the difference?
adventitious | undefined |
From an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign.
Accidental, additional, appearing casually.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 30:
(genetics, medicine) Not congenital; acquired.
(biology) Developing in an unusual place or from an unusual source.
* 1985 , , H. T. Clifford, & P. F. Yeo, The Families of the Monocotyledons , page 101
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As adjectives the difference between adventitious and undefined
is that adventitious is from an external source; not innate or inherent, foreign while undefined is lacking a definition or value.adventitious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The adventitious disappearance of those nearer the the throne than the duke had, moreover, set tongues awagging.
- The Velloziaceae have evolved a woody stem which is covered with a layer of adventitious roots mingled with the fibres of the old leaf sheaths;
Synonyms
* (from an external source) extrinsic * accidental, spontaneous, sporadic * (not congenital) acquiredDerived terms
* adventitiously * adventitiousnessundefined
English
Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .