Equipoise vs Null - What's the difference?
equipoise | null |
A state of balance; equilibrium.
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A counterbalance.
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To act or make to act as an equipoise.
To cause to be or stay in equipoise.
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 a proper noun equipoise
is (pharmaceutical drug|trademark) market name for the anabolic steroid boldenone undecylenate.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.equipoise
English
(wikipedia equipoise)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(-)- Government was unnerved, confounded, and in a manner suspended. Its equipoise was totally gone.
- “An easy evasion”, retorted the excited bride, who had lost her mental equipoise .
- The words were not without emotion, and retained their level tone as if by a careful equipoise between imminent extremes.
- And I saw him thus absorbed in godly pursuits in the midst of business, not once or twice, but very often. I never saw him lose his state of equipoise .
- The cone’s not fixed, it’s hung by a chain from a lever, and balanced by an equipoise .
Verb
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.