Diachronic vs Null - What's the difference?
diachronic | null |
Occurring over or changing with time.
* 2005 April 24, Los Angeles Times ,
Of, pertaining to or concerned with changes that occur over time.
* 1963 , Alfred Louis Kroeber, An Anthropologist Looks at History ,
* 1996 , Richard E. Blanton, 3: The Basin of Mexico Market System and the Growth of Empire'', Frances Berdan (editor), ''Aztec Imperial Strategies ,
* 2011 , Herman Rapaport, The Literary Theory Toolkit: A Compendium of Concepts and Methods ,
* 2011 , Konrad H. Jarausch, Chapter One: Germany 1989: A New Type of Revolution?'', Marc Silberman (editor), ''The German Wall ,
* 2012 , Paolo Ramat, Sturtevant's paradox revisited'', Thomas Stolz, Hitomi Otsuka, Aina Urdze, Johan van der Auwera (editors), ''Irregularity in Morphology (and Beyond) , [page 61],
* 2012 , Oliver Glanz, Understanding Participant-Reference Shifts in the Book of Jeremiah ,
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 diachronic
is occurring over or changing with time.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.diachronic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- one salient value of archival magazine preservation is that individual issues register, however unintentionally, the small, incremental, diachronic movements within a culture.
page 169,
- It is plain that natural science has developed more diachronic concern, more of the longer historical approach in its interests and repertory, in the last two centuries than in the two millennia before.
page 52,
- I also take a more diachronic perspective and relate the growth of empire to changes in the regional market system as they occurred in the transition from the Early Aztec to the Late Aztec periods.
page 82,
- In short, it's usual for the syuzhet to appear more diachronic at the beginning and more synchronic at the end.
page 11,
- Rethinking the revolution issue is therefore the key to any novel interpretation, but it needs to be addressed in a more diachronic and synchronic fashion, comparing the Wende to earlier German upheavals and to the concurrent transformation of East Central Europe.
- Consequently, the perspective will be more diachronic than synchronic.
page 172,
- However, his interpretation and conclusion receive their rationale almost as often from the subjective horizon as the more diachronic oriented commentaries do.
Antonyms
* (occurring over time) synchronic * (of or concerned with changes that occur over time) synchronicDerived terms
* diachronic linguistics (historical linguistics)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.