Sphincter vs Null - What's the difference?
sphincter | null |
(anatomy) A ringlike band of muscle that surrounds a bodily opening, constricting and relaxing as required for normal physiological functioning.
* 1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'' (Faber & Faber, 2004: ''Avignon Quintet ), page 836:
# (in particular) The internal or external anal sphincter, to the extent these are distinguished as two separate entities.
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 sphincter and null
is that sphincter is (anatomy) a ringlike band of muscle that surrounds a bodily opening, constricting and relaxing as required for normal physiological functioning while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.sphincter
English
(wikipedia sphincter)Noun
(en noun)- the sphincter of the bladder
- the iris sphincter in the eye
- She decided that she would force him to climax first by the sheer strength of her young animal control, the strength of her sphincters
Synonyms
* anatomical sphincterDerived terms
* anal sphincter * lower esophageal sphincter * pyloric sphincter * sphincteral * urethral sphincter * upper esophageal sphincterSee also
* cardianull
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.