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imam | null |

As nouns the difference between imam and null

is that imam is imam or imam can be while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

imam

English

Alternative forms

* imaum

Noun

(wikipedia imam) (en noun)
  • A Shi'ite Muslim leader.
  • One who leads the salat prayers in a mosque.
  • Quotations

    * 1901': Now it chanced that in one of the mosques was an '''Imam . (''footnote:'' The person specially appointed to lead the prayers of the congregation and paid out of the endowed revenues of the mosque to which he is attached) — John Payne, ''Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp * 2001': But then there's a Christian cleric and an '''imam on each of the country's three regional censorship boards, in Kaduna, Lagos and Onitsha, although more than one producer told me that the brown envelope worked the same magic here as in any other Nigerian Government department. — ''London Review of Books, 10 May 2001 * 2004': In the 1980s, roughly six hundred young Algerian men, many of them protégés of Muslim Brothers from Egypt and Wahhabi '''imams from Saudi Arabia, went to Afghanistan to join the anti-Soviet jihad. — ''London Review of Books, 7 Oct 2004, p.3

    Anagrams

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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 ----