Cimmerian vs Null - What's the difference?
cimmerian | null |
perpetually dark or gloomy
* 1631 : , L'Allegro
* 1740 :
* 1820 :
(figuratively) mentally dark; ignorant
* 1770 :
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 cimmerian and null
is that cimmerian is (greek mythology) any of the mythical people supposed to inhabit a land of perpetual darkness while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective cimmerian
is pertaining to the ancient cimmerians.As a proper noun cimmerian
is the language of the cimmerians, possibly belonging to the iranian branch.cimmerian
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
- As ragged as thy locks,
In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
- ...the darkness of antiquated barbarism, in which he buries himself like a mole, to throw up the barren hillocks of his Cimmerian labours.
- The source of man’s unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.... To remove this Cimmerian darkness... requires the clue of Ariadne.
Derived terms
* cimmerianism * cimmerianizenull
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.