Periodical vs Null - What's the difference?
periodical | null |
A publication issued regularly, but less frequently than daily.
A publication that appears at fixed intervals.
A publication that often contains the most current information in the field, on every conceivable topic, often in greater detail than other publication formats.
The primary means for communication of original scholarship or creative work at the cutting edge of research in almost all fields.
Periodic.
* Sir J. Herschel
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Published at regular intervals of more than one day, especially weekly, monthly, or quarterly.
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Of, or relating to such a publication.
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 periodical and null
is that periodical is a publication issued regularly, but less frequently than daily while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective periodical
is periodic.periodical
English
(wikipedia periodical)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (a publication that appears at fixed intervals) serialReferences
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(en adjective)- The periodical times of all the satellites.
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- To influence opinion through the periodical press.
Anagrams
*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.