Daimon vs Null - What's the difference?
daimon | null |
A tutelary spirit that guides a person; a genius; a lar.
* 1891, Walter James Hoffman, The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa
* 1900, , Over the Teacups
* 1960, Charles I. Glicksberg, Norman Mailer: The Angry Young Novelist in America'', in ''Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature , vol. 1, no. 1
*1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.27:
*:Marcus Aurelius is persuaded that God gives every man a special daimon as his guide – a belief which reappears in the Christian guardian angel.
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 daimon and null
is that daimon is a tutelary spirit that guides a person; a genius; a lar while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.daimon
English
Noun
(tutelary deity) (en noun)- The object which first appears is adopted as the personal mystery, guardian spirit, or tutelary daimon of the entranced, and is never mentioned by him without first making a sacrifice.
- All at once, my daimon —that other Me over whom I button my waistcoat when I button it over my own person—put it into my head to look up the story of Madame Saqui.
- He will release his pent-up rage and fear no evil, for his genius is with him, and his daimon bids him violate all the taboos of the literary marketplace.
Derived terms
* daimonicReferences
* Oxford English Dictionary, second edition.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.