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munia | null |

As a verb munia

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

munia

English

(wikipedia munia)

Alternative forms

* minia

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of certain estrildid finches of the genera Lonchura'' (most instances) and ''Amandava (two species).
  • * 1895 , Eugene William Oates, William Thomas Blanford, Birds , Volume 3, page 88,
  • It is said, however, occasionally though rarely to eat insects, and Layard has related how an individual, kept in captivity, killed and swallowed small birds (Munias ), its fellow-captives.
  • * 2000 , Tara Gandhi, Birds and Plant Regeneration , page 76,
  • Munias are smaller than sparrows; they have pointed short tails, and live in flocks, building large communal nests shared by several breeding pairs.
  • * 2010 , Graham R. S. Ritchie, Simon Kirby, 20: A Possible Role for Selective Masking in the Evolution of Complex, Learned Communication Systems'', Caroline Lyon, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Angelo Cangelosi (editors), ''Emergence of Communication and Language , page 398,
  • Okanoya (2002) argues that the Bengalese finch has a much more 'complex' song than the munia'. As mentioned earlier, his measure of complexity is the song linearity. He finds that the average song linearity of the ' munia is around 0.8 while the Bengalese finch song has a value of around 0.4.

    Synonyms

    * (finch of genus Lonchura) mannikin, silverbill * (finch of genus Amandava) avadavat

    Derived terms

    * (black-and-white munia) () * (black-faced munia) () * (black-throated munia) () * (bronze munia) () * (brown-backed munia) () * (chestnut munia) () * (cream-bellied munia) () * (dusky munia) () * (five-coloured munia) () * (green munia) () * (Javan munia) () * (magpie munia) () * (pale-headed munia) () * (red munia) () * (scaly-breasted munia) () * (streak-headed munia) () * (tricoloured munia) () * (white-bellied munia) () * (white-capped munia) () * (white-headed munia) () * (white-rumped munia) () * (white-throated munia) () ----

    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 ----