Noun

(en noun)

The act of irritating, or exciting, or the state of being irritated; excitement; stimulation, usually of an undue and uncomfortable kind; especially, excitement of anger or passion; provocation; annoyance; anger.

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The act of exciting, or the condition of being excited to action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve is affected by some external body; especially, the act of exciting muscle fibers to contraction, by artificial stimulation; as, the irritation of a motor nerve by electricity; also, the condition of a muscle and nerve, under such stimulation.

A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.

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