Irradiate vs Null - What's the difference?
irradiate | null |
To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.
* Sir W. Jones
To enlighten intellectually; to illuminate.
* Bishop George Bull
To animate by heat or light.
To radiate, shed, or diffuse.
* H. James
To emit rays; to shine.
To treat (food) with ionizing radiation in order to destroy bacteria
Illuminated; irradiated; made brilliant or splendid.
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 verb irradiate
is to throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.As an adjective irradiate
is illuminated; irradiated; made brilliant or splendid.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.irradiate
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Thy smile irradiates yon blue fields.
- to irradiate the mind
- And indeed we ought, in these happy intervals, when our understandings are thus irradiated and enlightened, to make a judgment of the state and condition of our souls in the sight of God
- a splendid facade, irradiating hospitality
Adjective
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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.