Momentous vs Undefined - What's the difference?
momentous | undefined |
Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
* 1725 , , Everybody's Business is Nobody's Business :
* 1831 , , Homeward Bound , ch. 31:
* 1902 , , The End of the Tether , ch. 3:
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Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As adjectives the difference between momentous and undefined
is that momentous is outstanding in importance, of great consequence while undefined is lacking a definition or value.momentous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The reason why I did not publish this book till the end of the last sessions of parliament was, because I did not care to interfere with more momentous affairs.
- "It has been a momentous month, and I hope we shall all retain healthful recollections of it as long as we live."
- What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence.
Inferior Design," New York Times (retrieved 19 Nov 2013):
- Natural selection is arguably the most momentous idea ever to occur to a human mind, because it — alone as far as we know — explains the elegant illusion of design that pervades the living kingdoms and explains, in passing, us.
Derived terms
* momentously * momentousnessundefined
English
Adjective
(wikipedia undefined) (-)- The result of division by zero is undefined .