Meanings
plural nonvalues
- That which is not a value (in various senses).
He needs to identify the crucial indispensable values to his life and distinguish them from lesser values and nonvalues.
2005, Edward W. Younkins, Philosophers of Capitalism: Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond1 more example
Other systems have techniques to make it easier to treat nonvalues as 0 or another value; generally speaking, some automatic conversion to 0 is provided. Microsoft's MDX automatically treats NULL as zero in most cases […]
2002, Erik Thomsen, OLAP Solutions: Building Multidimensional Information Systems
Origin
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