Noise vs Null - What's the difference?
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Various sounds, usually unwanted.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* {{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the performance of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}
Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
(label) Unwanted part of a signal. (Signal to noise ratio )
(label) The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
Rumour or complaint.
* T. Baker
* Spectator
(obsolete) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
To make a noise; to sound.
To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts II:
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 noise and null
is that noise is various sounds, usually unwanted while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb noise
is to make a noise; to sound.noise
English
Noun
(en noun)- The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived.
- What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood!
- Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages.
- The king has his noise of gypsies.
- (Milton)
Derived terms
* noises off * noiselessSynonyms
* (Various sounds) soundHyponyms
* (Various sounds) bang, boom, crash, thudReferences
(Genetics meaning)'' "Noise in Gene Expression: Origins, Consequences, and Control." Jonathan M. Raser and Erin K. O'Shea (2005). ''Science . 309 (5743):2010-2013.
Verb
(nois)- (Milton)
- When this was noysed aboute, the multitude cam togedder and were astonyed, because that every man herde them speake in his awne tongue.
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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.