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anthropogenic | null |

As an adjective anthropogenic

is pertaining to the origin of man, or anthropogeny.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

anthropogenic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • pertaining to the origin of man, or anthropogeny
  • * 1952' ''The cosmogonic and '''anthropogenic myths are of secondary importance in Yahwistic religiosity.'' (H. H. Gerth & D. A. Martindale (trans.), ''M. Weber's Ancient Judaism ix. 227)
  • having its origin in the influence of human activity on nature.
  • * Wastewater is any water that has been adversely affected in quality by anthropogenic influence.
  • Synonyms

    * anthropogenous

    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 ----