Efflux vs Null - What's the difference?
efflux | null |
The process of flowing out.
* 1832 , Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening ,
* 1988 , Elizabeth Sagey, Degree of closure in complwx segments'', Norval Smith, Harry van der Hulst (editors), ''Features, Segmental Structure and Harmony Processes , Part 1, Linguistic Models 12a,
* 2003 , Awtar Krishan, Flow cytometric monitoring of drug resistance in human tumor cells'', R.C. Sobti, A. Krishan (editors), ''Advanced Flow Cytometry: Applications in Biological Research ,
That which has flowed out.
* Thomson
* 1963 , Arnold Reymond, History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity ,
To run out.
To flow forth.
(obsolete) To pass away.
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 efflux and null
is that efflux is the process of flowing out while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb efflux
is to run out.efflux
English
Noun
(es)- We all age through the efflux of time.
- The efflux of matter from a boil can be painful.
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- It is there that the devout affections, undisturbed by other faculties, are incessantly in efflux .
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- The remaining effluxes are pronounced without audible velar release.
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- By facilitating efflux of drugs from the intracellular domain, these proteins reduce cytotoxicity and thus confer drug resistance.
- the efflux of a boil
- Prime cheerer, light! Efflux divine.
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- Thus between the earth and the sky there is a perpetual exchange of effluxes' following a double way, ascending and descending. From the earth and sea arise ' effluxes , some dry, others moist.
Synonyms
* (process of flowing out) outflow, effluxion, effluence * (that which has flowed out) outflowVerb
(es)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.