Eon vs Null - What's the difference?
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(US) Eternity.
A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
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(geology) The longest time period used in geology.
(US, informal, hyperbole) A long period of time.
A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
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 initialism eon
is (politics) , it was formed before wwii and disbanded in 1941.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.eon
English
Alternative forms
* aeon (chiefly British or Gnostic) * (qualifier)Noun
(wikipedia eon) (en noun)citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
- It's been eons since we last saw each other.
Derived terms
* Archean eon * eonian *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.