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Microworld vs Null - What's the difference?

microworld | null |

As nouns the difference between microworld and null

is that microworld is the world as it exists at a microscopic scale, subject to quantum effects etc while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

microworld

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The world as it exists at a microscopic scale, subject to quantum effects etc.
  • *{{quote-journal, 2007, date=August 11, Peter J. Riggs, Reflections on the deBroglie–Bohm Quantum Potential, Erkenntnis, url=, doi=10.1007/s10670-007-9054-1, volume=68, issue=1, pages=
  • , passage=There are certainly many, new features to be learnt about the microworld and which quantum mechanics can inform about. }}
  • *2011 , & Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum World , Allen Lane 2011, p. 8:
  • *:This randomness in the behaviour of the microworld came as a shock because, until this point, science was resolutely deterministic.
  • 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 ----