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Newtonian vs Null - What's the difference?

newtonian | null |

As nouns the difference between newtonian and null

is that newtonian is a scientist supporting isaac newton's views on physics and mathematics while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective newtonian

is of or relating to , or his laws and theories.

newtonian

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to , or his laws and theories.
  • (fluid mechanics, of a fluid) Obeying Newton's law of viscosity; i.e. having a constant viscosity.
  • (physics) Of or relating to classical physics that does not take relativity into account.
  • Derived terms

    *non-Newtonian

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scientist supporting Isaac Newton's views on physics and mathematics.
  • 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 ----