Oblast vs Null - What's the difference?
oblast | null |
A region or province in Slavic or Slavic-influenced countries.
* 1979 , Jerry Fincher Hough, How the Soviet Union Is Governed ,
* 2002 , Kathryn Stoner-Weiss, Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance ,
* 2010 , Martha Brill Olcott, Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise ,
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 oblast and null
is that oblast is (a region or province in some countries) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.oblast
English
(wikipedia oblast)Noun
(en noun)page 483,
- The territorial subdivision below the level of the union republic — or at least below the level of the larger union republics — is that of the oblast', the krai, or the autonomous republic. In 1977 there were 120 ' oblasts , 6 krais, and 20 autonomous republics, and they corresponded roughly to the American state in size.
page 119,
- It is important to note, however, that the general pattern of Nizhnii Novgorod oblast' at the top and Tiumen' and Yaroslavl' ' oblasts in the middle, with Saratov at the bottom, occurred too often across all indicators to assume that even those differences in means that were not significant at a .05 confidence level or better occurred merely by chance.
page 194,
- Almaty oblast' (distinct from Almaty city) is the most rural of Kazakhstan's ' oblasts , at just 22.2 percent urban.
Derived terms
* autonomous oblastSee also
* kraiAnagrams
* * ----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.