Gens vs Null - What's the difference?
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(historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related by birth, marriage or adoption, but allowing a greater amount of time between members and their common ancestor than is commonly implied by the term related.
(anthropology) A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line.
* 1919 , :
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 nouns the difference between gens and null
is that gens is while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.gens
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from generations.Abbreviation
(Abbreviation) (head)See also
* genEtymology 2
(wikipedia gens) From (etyl) ; see also gentile, gender, genus, generate.Noun
(en-noun)- The taboos, the laws, the rules of genses , tribes, and nations, from the lowest to the highest, are upheld by a vague terror and sacred awe which society impresses on man by threats of ill-luck, fearful evil, and terrible punishments befalling sinners and transgressors of the tabooed, of the holy and the forbidden, charged with a mysterious, highly contagious, and virulently infective life-consuming energy.
Usage notes
(historical Roman unit of society) The concept is close to and often translated as clan, but the two are not identical. The alternative tribe is also sometimes used, but the (etyl) tribus has a separate meaning.Synonyms
(historical Roman unit of society) clan, tribeAnagrams
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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.