Concretion vs Null - What's the difference?
concretion | null |
The process of aggregating]] or [[coalesce, coalescing into a mass.
A solid, hard mass formed by a process of aggregation or coalescence.
(petrology) A rounded mass of a mineral, sometimes found in sedimentary rock or on the ocean floor.
* 1844 , , Geological Observations on South America , ch. 5,
The action of making something concrete or the result of such an action.
* 1860 , , The Marble Faun , ch. 14,
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 nouns the difference between concretion and null
is that concretion is concretion while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.concretion
English
(wikipedia concretion)Noun
(en noun)- Of the three beds, the central one is the most compact, and more like ordinary sandstone: it includes numerous flattened spherical concretions .
- "My new statue!" said Kenyon. . . . "It is the concretion of a good deal of thought, emotion, and toil of brain and hand."
Usage notes
* Concretion and concretization' are rough synonyms but are usually not used interchangeably. '''Concretion''' is more commonly used to refer to a physical object or to the physical process which creates it. ' Concretization is more commonly used to refer to a particular embodiment of a general concept or to the process which creates it.References
* Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.Anagrams
* *null
English
Noun
(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.