Polyol vs Null - What's the difference?
polyol | null |
(organic chemistry) Any organic compound having three or more hydroxyl functional groups; a polyhydric alcohol.
* 2003 , (Bill Bryson), A Short History of Nearly Everything , BCA 2003, p. 258:
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 polyol and null
is that polyol is (organic chemistry) any organic compound having three or more hydroxyl functional groups; a polyhydric alcohol while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.polyol
English
(wikipedia polyol)Noun
(en noun)- a team at the Ames Research Center in California announced that the Murchison rock also contained complex strings of sugars called polyols , which had not been found off the Earth before.
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.