Stela vs Null - What's the difference?
stela | null |
(archaeology) an obelisk or upright stone pillar, usually as a primitive commemoration or gravestone
*1776 , R. Chandler, Trav. Greece , VIII 35
*:In the courts of the houses lie many round stelæ , or pillars, once placed on the graves of the Athenians.
*1837 , J. G. Wilkinson, Manners & Customs of the Anc. Egyptians , I ii 101
*:He erected a stela , with an inscription in the sacred character, to commemorate his successes.
*1876 , S. Manning, Land of Pharaohs , 203
*:The upright blocks or stelas are among the most curious parts of the present ruin.
*1893 , E. A. T. W. Budge, Mummy , 30
*:Thothmes I. set up two stelæ near the Euphrates.
*1966 , Paul Bowles, Up Above the World
*:A shore excursion had been arranged for the passengers who were interested in visiting the stelae of San Ignacio.
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 stela and null
is that stela is connection (position in a network of profitable acquaintanceships) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.stela
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* (pl. ) stelae, stelesNoun
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* English nouns with irregular plurals ----null
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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.