Moderation vs Null - What's the difference?
moderation | null |
The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes
* {{quote-book
, passage=...It regulates and governs the Passions of the Mind, and brings them into due moderation and frame...
, page=17
, title=An Account of the Growth of Deism in England
, author=William Stephens
, year=1696}}
* 1772 , , [http://books.google.com/books?id=twVuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA394]:
* 1821 October 12, , [http://books.google.com/books?id=5q4XBa5jsy8C&pg=PA7]:
An instance of moderating: bringing something away from extremes, especially in a beneficial way
* {{quote-news, year=1936, date=March, work=The Southern Lumberman
, passage=With the quick moderation of the weather some buying has appeared that had been held up because of the extremely cold weather
The process of moderating a discussion
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 moderation and null
is that moderation is moderation while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.moderation
English
(wikipedia moderation)Noun
- Mr. Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own moderation !
- America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
citation
- The moderation of a large online forum can be hard work.
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.