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Desmid vs Null - What's the difference?

desmid | null |

As nouns the difference between desmid and null

is that desmid is any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order desmidiales while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

desmid

English

(Desmidiales)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order Desmidiales.
  • * 1981', Alan J. Brook, ''The Biology of Desmids'', University of California Press, ''Botanical Monographs'' ' 16 , page 1
  • Desmids , which are exclusively freshwater algae, are so named because the first of these green microorganisms to be described were thought to be pairs of cells joined together, and the Greek word 'desmos' means a bond or chain.

    See also

    * (Desmidiales)

    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 ----