Metamorphism vs Null - What's the difference?
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(geology) The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
*2004 , Richard Fortey, The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 100:
*:burial means that the ambient pressure on the rock increases – as does the temperature. This encourages metamorphism .
(zoology) The process by which insects development through life stages -- as, for example, those of embryo, larva, pupa and imago. The life cycle of the butterfly is one of complete metamorphosis, in which the embryo grows within the egg, hatches into the larval stage caterpillar, enters the pupal stage within its chrysalis, and finally emerges as an adult butterfly imago.
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 metamorphism and null
is that metamorphism is (geology) the process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.metamorphism
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(en noun)See also
* metamorphic * metamorphosisnull
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(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
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(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.