Millennium vs Null - What's the difference?
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A period of time consisting of one thousand years.
*2013 , Dan Pearson, The Guardian , 24 Mar 2013:
*:Magnolias are some of the most primitive of our flowering trees, and fossils dating back millennia prove that they have had little need to evolve.
(Christianity) The period of one thousand years during which Christ will reign on earth (according to Millenarianist interpretations).
* 1911 , (Saki), ‘Tobermory’, The Chronicles of Clovis :
*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 137:
*:the end of the world would be heralded by a series of spectacular and symbolic events […]. According to most commentators, this millennium had already begun.
*2011 , (Norman Davies), Vanished Kingdoms , Penguin 2012, p. 117:
*:Conrad's later years unfolded in the shadow of the coming Millennium , when the end of the world was forecast.
A period of universal happiness, peace or prosperity; a utopia.
* 1902 , (William James), The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 318:
(with definite article) The year in which one period of one thousand years ends and another begins, especially the year 2000.
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 millennium and null
is that millennium is millennium (thousand-year period) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.millennium
English
Noun
(en-noun)- An archangel ecstatically proclaiming the Millennium , and then finding that it clashed unpardonably with Henley and would have to be indefinitely postponed, could hardly have felt more crestfallen than Cornelius Appin at the reception of his wonderful achievement.
- But the aggressive members of society are always tending to become bullies, robbers, and swindlers; and no one believes that such a state of things as we now live in is the millennium .
Synonyms
* * kiloyear (kyr) * kiloannum (ka)Derived terms
* millennial * millennium bug English nouns with irregular plurals ----null
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.