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Faeces vs Null - What's the difference?

faeces | null |

As nouns the difference between faeces and null

is that faeces is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

faeces

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • * 1968 May, W. B. Healy, Ingestion of Soil by Dairy Cows'', ''New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research , page 487,
  • This paper reports on ingestion of soil by dairy cows using titanium analysis of faeces by the X-ray fluorescence technique, and gives the range of soil intakes of a year on both an individual and a herd basis.
  • * 1984 April 19, David F. Chantrey, James B. Reid, C. E. Davie, Dog Business'', '' , page 48,
  • The fact that dogs have a well developed sense of smell suggests that they might be able to use the odour of faeces as a means of communicating.
  • * 2004 , Håkan Jönsson, Håkan Jönsson, Anna Richert Stintzing, Björn Vinnerås, Eva Salomon, Guidelines on the Use of Urine and Faeces in Crop Production , page 1,
  • Urine and faeces' are complete fertilizers of high quality with low levels of contaminants such as heavy metals. Urine is rich in nitrogen, while ' faeces are rich in phosphorous, potassium and organic matter.
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    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 ----