Hectic vs Null - What's the difference?
hectic | null |
Pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.
Very busy with activity and confusion; feverish.
(obsolete) A hectic fever.
(obsolete) A flush like one produced by such a fever.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.147:
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 hectic and null
is that hectic is (obsolete) a hectic fever while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective hectic
is pertaining to bodily reactions characterised by flushed or dry skin.hectic
English
Alternative forms
* hectick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- hectic''' fever; a '''hectic patient
- The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
Synonyms
* feverishDerived terms
* hecticallyNoun
(en noun)- For still he lay, and on his thin worn cheek / A purple hectic played like dying day / On the snow-tops of distant hills [...].
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* *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.