Contemporaneous vs Null - What's the difference?
contemporaneous | null |
Existing or created in the same period of time.
* 1973 , , quoted in Harun Kofi Wangara, “African Perspective on History”, in John H. Johnson (editor and publisher), Black World , Volume 23 Number 4 (February 1974),
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* 12 July 2012 , Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
*:Preceded by a Simpsons short shot in 3-D—perhaps the only thing more superfluous than a fourth Ice Age movie—Ice Age: Continental Drift finds a retinue of vaguely contemporaneous animals coping with life in the post-Pangaea age.
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 contemporaneous
is existing or created in the same period of time.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.contemporaneous
English
Adjective
(-)- Look in other contemporaneous works to see whether that idea was common then.
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- Then, if this script is deciphered, we will have in that respect the testimony of an African language which goes back 2,400 years, that is to say [back to a period] fairly contemporaneous with Latin and other languages of antiquity.
- The Network Control Program (NCP) provided the middle layers of the protocol stack running on host computers of the ARPANET, the predecessor to the modern Internet. Although sometimes the abbreviation NCP is mistakenly expanded to Network Control Protocol, this term is not found in the contemporaneous documentation.
Usage notes
* For events which occur at precisely the same time, simultaneous is used.Synonyms
* (existing or created in the same period of time) contemporary, coeval, cotemporalnull
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.