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Colloquium vs Null - What's the difference?

colloquium | null |

As nouns the difference between colloquium and null

is that colloquium is a colloquy; a meeting for discussion while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

colloquium

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A colloquy; a meeting for discussion.
  • An academic meeting or seminar usually led by a different lecturer and on a different topic at each meeting.
  • An address to an academic meeting or seminar.
  • (legal) That part of the complaint or declaration in an action for defamation which shows that the words complained of were spoken concerning the plaintiff.
  • Usage notes

    Note that while colloquial refers specifically to informal'' conversation, colloquy and colloquium refer instead to ''formal conversation.

    Quotations

    * 1876 : Stephen Dowell, A History of Taxation and Taxes in England , I. 87. *: Writs were issued to London and the other towns principally concerned, directing the mayor and sheriffs to send to a colloquium at York two or three citizens with full power to treat on behalf of the community of the town.

    References

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    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 ----