Terrestrial vs Null - What's the difference?
terrestrial | null |
Of, relating to, or inhabiting the land of the Earth or its inhabitants.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Of, relating to, or composed of land.
*1997 , New Scientist, issue 2096, Review: Cinderella's house
*:Microorganisms are the Cinderellas of terrestrial ecology — the majority of the Earth's biomass, yet barely catalogued.
Living or growing in or on land (as opposed to other habitat); not aquatic, etc.
(astronomy) Of a planet, being composed primarily of silicate rocks or metals; see also terrestrial planet.
Concerned with the world or worldly matters.
* Young
(Mormonism) Of or pertaining to the second highest degree of glory.
* {{quote-journal , year=1974 , date=February , title=A Sure Trumpet Sound: Quotations from President Lee , journal=Ensign
, passage=We are now living and obeying celestial laws that will make us candidates for celestial glory; or we are living terrestrial' laws that will make us candidates for ' terrestrial glory; or telestial.}}
* {{quote-journal , year=1977 , date=August , author=Bruce R. McConkie , title=A New Commandment: Save Thyself and Thy Kindred! , journal=Tambuli
, passage=Theirs is an everlasting terrestrial inheritance because they rejected the truth when it was offered to them in mortality.}}
(broadcasting) Broadcast using radio waves as opposed to .
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 terrestrial and null
is that terrestrial is an inhabitant of the planet earth while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.terrestrial
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Adjective
(-)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
- A genius bright and base, / Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims.
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Synonyms
* planetary * tellurian, telluric, Terran, terrene * , landly * telluric, rocky * (concerned with the world) earthly, mundane, sublunary, worldlyAntonyms
* (living or growing on land) aerial, aquatic, arboreal, epiphytic * aerial * (concerned with the world) celestial, spiritualDerived terms
* extraterrestrial * subterrestrial * superterrestrial * supraterrestrial * terrestrial albedo * terrestrially * terrestrial navigation * terrestrial planet * terrestrial telescopeReferences
*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.