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Irritability vs Null - What's the difference?

irritability | null |

As nouns the difference between irritability and null

is that irritability is the state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

irritability

English

Noun

  • The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.
  • (physiology) A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways.
  • * E. Darwin
  • We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibres of plants.
  • (medicine) A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli.
  • References

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • 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.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----