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(Greek mythology): The only mortal of the three gorgon sisters. She is killed by Perseus. The other two sisters were Euryale and Stheno.
* 1895 , , (w) (editor and translator), Masterpieces of Greek Sculpture: A Series of Essays on the History of Art , 2010, ISBN 9781108017121,
* 2000 , Nannó Marinatos, The Goddess and the Warrior: The Naked Goddess and Mistress of the Animals in Early Greek Religion ,
* 2001', Dennis Berthold, ''Melville's '''Medusas'' , in Sanford E. Marovitz, Athanasios C. Christodoulou (editors), ''Melville "Among the nations": Proceedings of an International Conference, Volos, Greece, July 2-6, 1997 ,
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 a verb medusa
is .As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.medusa
English
(wikipedia Medusa)Proper noun
(en proper noun)page 201,
- On an Attic vase of the middle of the fifth century the head of Medusa' in the hand of Perseus is represented as that of a beautiful woman free from any distortion. This led us to conclude (''supra'', p. 158) that ' Medusa must have been so represented at Athens in the greater arts even previous to this vase, for the vase-painters never invent such bold novelties for themselves.
page 62,
- It will be suggested here that the myth of Perseus, involving the decapitation of Medusa , is a narrative version of ritual.
- But their depictions of Perseus are remarkably different and demonstrate the ambiguity of Medusa' that was seeping into Victorian iconography. In later, Roman versions of the myth, for example Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', Perseus slays the sea monster with his sword instead of using ' Medusa ’s head to petrify the monster.
Derived terms
* medusafish * medusahead * medusalSee also
* * Euryale * SthenoAnagrams
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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.