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academician | null |

As nouns the difference between academician and null

is that academician is (now|chiefly|us) a member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

academician

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (now, chiefly, US) A member (especially a senior one) of the faculty at a college or university; an academic.
  • A member or follower of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, such as the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of Arts.
  • *1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, page 9:
  • *:‘Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge overdressed dowagers and tedious Academicians , I suddenly became conscious that some one was looking at me.’
  • Synonyms

    (member of university faculty) * academian * academic

    Derived terms

    * academicianship

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----