Mythos vs Null - What's the difference?
mythos | null |
A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group.
Anything delivered by word of mouth: a word, speech, conversation, or similar; a story, tale, or legend, especially a poetic tale.
A tale, story, or narrative, usually verbally transmitted, or otherwise recorded into the written form from an alleged secondary source.
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 mythos and null
is that mythos is myth, mythos (a story relevant to a particular culture or some other group) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.mythos
English
Noun
(en-noun)Usage notes
* An analysis of the comparative frequency of the plural forms mythoi and mythoses in four corpora revealed that in the two of them that had either plural form, (term) was rare and (term) was non-existent.TheBritish National Corpus (BYU–BNC)]: (term) (0) vs. (term) (0)The [http://www.americancorpus.org/ Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)]: (term) (1) vs. (term) (0)[http://corpus.byu.edu/oed/ BYU–OED: The Oxford English Dictionary]: (term) (4) vs. (term) (0)The [http://corpus.byu.edu/time/ TIME Magazine Corpus of American English]: (term) (0) vs. (term) (0) Moreover, of ten other dictionaries, seven list (term) as the only valid plural,“[http://www.bartleby.com/61/57/M0515700.html mythos]” listed in the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [4th Ed.]“[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mythos mythos]” defined by Dictionary.com Unabridged'“[http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861632246 mythos]” defined by the Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Ed.]“[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mythos mythos]” defined by the '''Free Online Dictionary'''“[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mythos mythos]” defined by '''Merriam–Webster’s Online Dictionary'''“[http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00320492?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=mythos&first=1&max_to_show=10 mythos, ''n.'']” listed in the '''Oxford English Dictionary''' [draft revision; June 2008]“[http://dictionary.infoplease.com/mythos mythos]” defined by the '''Random House Unabridged Dictionary''', © 1997 Random House, Inc., on Infoplease the other three are tacit regarding the matter,“[http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?mythos mythos]” listed in Garth Kemerling’s '''Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names''' [2001]“[http://www.wordsmyth.net/live/home.php?script=search&matchent=mythos&matchtype=exact mythos]” defined by '''Wordsmyth'''“[http://www.yourdictionary.com/mythos mythos” defined by ' YourDictionary.com but none of them mention (term).
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* 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.