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professorial | null |

As an adjective professorial

is of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

professorial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, or characteristic of a professor or professors, or of a professorship or professorships.
  • * 1997 , Pamela M. Henson, “‘Through Books to Nature’: and the Nature Study Movement”, in Barbara T. Gates and Ann B. Shteir (editors), Natural Eloquence: Women Reinscribe Science , University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0-299-15484-4, page 121:
  • Adamant that women could not enter the professorial' fraternity, did not appoint any women professors until 1911 and then only in home economics. Comstock regained her ' professorial title only in 1913, after working for many years as a lecturer (Conable 127, 130).

    Derived terms

    * professorially

    See also

    * professorly

    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 ----