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Ecofact vs Null - What's the difference?

ecofact | null |

As nouns the difference between ecofact and null

is that ecofact is (achaeology) a biological artifact not altered by humans, but which may be indicative of human occupation while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

ecofact

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (achaeology) A biological artifact not altered by humans, but which may be indicative of human occupation.
  • * 1963 , Missouri Archaeological Society, Research Series, Issues 1–13 , page 57:
  • The fact that two periods of occupation are in evidence, both having similar ecofact and material remains, suggests that the occupation and the behavior carried on there are part of an established cycle of seasonally based behavior.
  • * 2009 , Nancy Marie White, Archaeology For Dummies'', part 1 ''Archaeology: Seeing Past People Today'', chapter 1 ''What Archaeology Is , page 12:
  • Ecofact''''' is a term archaeologists invented to classify natural objects used by humans without modification. Animal bones left for dinner or pollen from gathered plants are '''ecofacts'''. … Even phosphates or other chemicals in the soil are ' ecofacts showing that people threw their organic waste on the ground.

    Synonyms

    * (in archaeology) biofact

    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 ----