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As nouns the difference between civilization and null

is that civilization is an organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As a proper noun civilization

is collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised]], as savages or [[barbarian|barbarians cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the civilised world .

civilization

Alternative forms

* civilisation (UK)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political or technical development.
  • the Aztec civilization
    Western civilization
    Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.
  • (uncountable) Human society, particularly civil society.
  • A hermit doesn't much care for civilization .
    I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.
  • The act or process of civilizing]] or becoming [[civilize, civilized.
  • The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.
  • The state or quality of being civilized.
  • He was a man of great civilization .
  • (obsolete) The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
  • Synonyms

    * (large-scale stage of societal development) culture, order * (group of countries) sphere * (act of civilizing) education, acculturation * (preferred human society) home, the land of the living

    Derived terms

    * civilizational * civilizationally

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • Collectively, those people of the world considered to have a high standard of behavior and / or a high level of development. Commonly subjectively used by people of one society to exclusively refer to their society, or their elite sub-group, or a few associated societies, implying all others, in time or geography or status, as something less than civilised]], as savages or [[barbarian, barbarians. cf refinement, elitism, civilised society, the Civilised World
  • 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 ----