Monolith vs Null - What's the difference?
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A large single block of stone, used in architecture and sculpture.
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Anything massive, uniform and unmovable.
(chemistry, chromatography) A continuous stationary-phase as a homogeneous column in a single piece.
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 monolith and null
is that monolith is a large single block of stone, used in architecture and sculpture while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.monolith
English
(wikipedia monolith)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk, and sometimes even as a “true obelisk,” even though it is not. A true obelisk is a monolith , a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.}}
References
* (chemistry) Gagnon, Pete (1 August 2008). "Monoliths Emerge as Key Purification Methodology", Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News , pg. 48. ISSN 1935-472X. Retrieved on 20 September 2008.
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.
