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As nouns the difference between sturgeon and null

is that sturgeon is any marine or freshwater fish of the family acipenseridae that are prized for their roe and are endemic to temperate seas and rivers of the northern hemisphere, especially central eurasia while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

sturgeon

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any marine or freshwater fish of the family Acipenseridae that are prized for their roe and are endemic to temperate seas and rivers of the northern hemisphere, especially central Eurasia.
  • * 1961 , W. N. Holmes, Edward M. Donaldson, 1: Body Compartments and the Distribution of Electrolytes'', William Stewart Hoar, David J. Randall (editors), ''Fish Physiology , Volume 1, page 57,
  • An investigation has been carried out into the changes in blood chemistry which occur during the migration of young sturgeon and spawned adults from freshwater into saltwater and of the migration of prespawning adults in the reverse direction by Magnin (1962).
  • * 1997', M. L. Khrykhtin, V. G. Svirsky, '''''Sturgeon''' catch and the current status of '''sturgeon stocks in the Amur River'', Andreas Bauer, Astrid Kaiser-Pohlmann, ''Sturgeon Stocks and Caviar Trade Workshop: Proceedings , page 29,
  • Strict regulation of the catch was introduced in the Soviet Union in 1976 in order to prevent overfishing of the sexually mature sturgeons in the river.
  • * 2002 , Elizabeth Grossman, Watershed: The Undamming of America , page 41,
  • Long and snout-nosed with rows of platelike bony protrusions, sturgeon have a dinosaur-era look.
  • * 2006 , Richard N. Williams, James A. Lichatowich, Madison S. Powell, 4: The Diversity, Structure and Status of Populations'', Richard N. Williams (editor), ''Return to the River: Restoring Salmon Back to the Columbia River , page 156,
  • Information on the spawning period, spawning behavior, and other details of the reproductive biology of green sturgeon in the Columbia River is lacking (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife 1995).
  • * 2006 , Samuel M. McGinnis, Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes of California , Revised Edition, page 139,
  • Only about one out of every 80 sturgeons' caught in the Sacramento River is a Green '''Sturgeon''', and that lopsided ratio is reversed for ' sturgeons taken in the Klamath River.
  • * 2010 , Molly Aloian, The Yangtze: China's Majestic River , page 22,
  • In 2009, 120,000 Chinese sturgeons were released into the Yangtze River in an effort to boost the population of the endangered species in the wild.

    Synonyms

    * (fish of family Acipenseridae) acipenserid

    See also

    * acipenserine * caviar * isinglass

    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 ----