Temporal vs Null - What's the difference?
temporal | null |
Of or relating to time.
Of limited time; not perpetual.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians iv. 18
Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to (spiritual).
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 166:
Lasting a short time only.
Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.
(chiefly, in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
* Lowell
(skeleton) Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.
Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.
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 adjectives the difference between temporal and null
is that temporal is of or relating to time while null is having no validity, "null and void.As nouns the difference between temporal and null
is that temporal is anything temporal or secular; a temporality while null is a non-existent or empty value or set of values.As a verb null is
to nullify; to annul.temporal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporalis, from .Adjective
(en adjective)- The things which are seen are temporal , but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- Not long before, he had ruefully acknowledged in a letter to his pious mother that most of his appointments to the bench of bishops had been motivated by distinctly temporal impulses.
- temporal''' power; '''temporal courts
Derived terms
* extratemporal * metatemporal * temporality * temporallyNoun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
- He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals .
Etymology 2
From .Derived terms
* temporal bone * temporal lobeNoun
(en noun)External links
* * ----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.