Calorie vs Null - What's the difference?
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(physics and chemistry, obsolete ) The gram calorie or small calorie, a non-SI unit of energy, equivalent to approximately 4.2 joules. This unit was widely used in chemistry and physics, being the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C.
(nutrition) Kilogram calorie or large calorie. A unit of energy 1000 times larger than the gram calorie. It is equivalent to the gram kilocalorie, approximately 4.2 kilojoules.
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, title= 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 calorie and null
is that calorie is (physics and chemistry, obsolete ) the gram calorie or small calorie, a non-si unit of energy, equivalent to approximately 42 joules this unit was widely used in chemistry and physics, being the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °c while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.calorie
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Noun
(wikipedia calorie) (en noun)A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
Usage notes
* Most scientific studies are now carried out using the joule (an SI unit). * In nutritional contexts the term calorie'' refers to the kilogram calorie and the term ''kilocalorie refers to 1000 gram calories. Thus the two terms are equivalent. * European legislation now requires foods to be labelled with the term kilocalorie .Derived terms
* * * * calorific value * caloric (US) * calorific (British) * gram calorie * high-calorie (noun modifier) * kilogram calorie * low-calorie (noun modifier) * mean calorieAnagrams
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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.