Mina vs Null - What's the difference?
mina | null |
(historical) A monetary unit of ancient Greece and the Middle East, originally equivalent to the weight of a mina of silver.
* 1989 , C. D. C Reeve, Socrates in the Apology: An Essay on Plato?s Apology of Socrates ,
(historical) A unit of weight of varying value used in the ancient Middle East, especially Babylonia, Mesopotamia and Egypt; also an ancient Greek measure of weight equivalent to 1/60th of a talent.
* 1999 , Andrew George, translating Gilgamesh , VI:
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 pronoun mina
is mine.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.mina
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) maina'' "starling", from (etyl) ''madana .Etymology 2
From (etyl) mina, from (etyl)Noun
(en-noun)page 174,
- What then of the actual fine of thirty minae' Socrates proposes? Thirty ' minae was a large sum, “the equivalent of approximately eight-and-one-half years? wages," according to one recent estimate (Brickhouse and Smith 1988, 227); enough to buy a libary of three thousand philosophy books, if the price of Anaxogoras? book is any guide (26d6-e2).
- Thirty minas' of lapis lazuli in a solid block, two ' minas each their rims, six kor of oil, the capacity of both.
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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.