Primordial vs Null - What's the difference?
primordial | null |
first, earliest or original
* Sir W. Hamilton
(biology) characteristic of the earliest stage of the development of an organism, or relating to a primordium
primeval
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 primordial and null
is that primordial is a first principle or element while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective primordial
is first, earliest or original.primordial
English
Adjective
(-)- the primordial facts of our intelligent nature
- a primordial''' leaf; a '''primordial cell
Derived terms
* primordial black hole * primordial cell * primordial element * primordial fluctuations * primordial soupnull
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.
