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lemur | null |

As nouns the difference between lemur and null

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

lemur

Noun

(en noun)
  • (colloquial) Any strepsirrhine primate of the infraorder Lemuriformes, superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
  • The genus Lemur , represented by the ring-tailed lemur ().
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1758 , author=Linnaeus, C. , title=Systema Naturæ , volume=1 , edition=10 citation , publisher=Laurentius Salvius , location=Stockholm, Sweden , pages=29–30 , pageurl=http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726922 }}
  • (obsolete) The genus for a loris (), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ .
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1754 , author=Linnaeus, C. , title=Museum Adolphi Friderici Regis citation , publisher=Typographia Regia , location=Stockholm, Sweden , page=3–4 , pageurl=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k972707/f36.image , passage="Lemures dixi hos, quod noctu imprimis obambulant, hominibus quodanmodo similes, & lento passu vagantur." , translation=[I call them lemurs , because they go around mainly by night, in a certain way similar to humans, and roam with a slow pace.] }}

    Usage notes

    The taxonomy is currently disputed, see .

    Derived terms

    * Archaeolemur * Archaeolemuridae * bamboo lemur * dwarf lemur * Eulemur * fork-marked lemur * giant mouse lemur * hairy-eared dwarf lemur * Hapalemur * Lemuridae * lemuriform * Lemuriformes * lemuroid * Lemuroidea * Lepilemur * Lepilemuridae * mouse lemur * Pachylemur * ring-tailed lemur * ruffed lemur * sportive lemur * subfossil lemur * true lemur * woolly lemur

    See also

    *

    References

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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 ----