Cherty vs Null - What's the difference?
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(geology, mineralogy) Containing chert.
* {{quote-book, year=1879, author=James Stevenson, title=Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Rudely shaped, of hard cherty rock, flat on the inner face, convex on the back. 2759. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Charles Darwin, title=A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Its mineralogical constitution is not simple; in some parts the rock is of a cherty , in others of a feldspathic nature, including thin veins of serpentine. }}
* {{quote-journal, 1998, date=February 6, Chia-Wei Li et al., Precambrian Sponges with Cellular Structures, Science
, passage=It is represented by a phosphate-dolostone sequence in Wengan, where it is 33 to 55 m thick and consists mainly of dark phosphate, cherty phosphate, chert, and gray dolomite. }}
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.
As an adjective cherty
is (geology|mineralogy) containing chert.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.cherty
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(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.