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Sulcus vs Null - What's the difference?

sulcus | null |

As nouns the difference between sulcus and null

is that sulcus is (anatomy) a furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

sulcus

English

Noun

(wikipedia sulcus) (sulci)
  • (anatomy) a furrow or groove in an organ or a tissue
  • (anatomy) any of the grooves that mark the convolutions of the surface of the brain
  • (planetology) subparallel grooves and ditches formed by geological processes
  • Derived terms

    * calcaneal sulcus * central sulcus * cingulate sulcus * coronal sulcus * interlabial sulcus * intermammary sulcus * lacrimal sulcus (sulcus lacrimalis) * lateral sulcus * malleolar sulcus * postcentral sulcus * preauricular sulcus * precentral sulcus * radial sulcus (musculospiral groove) * sagittal sulcus * sigmoid sulcus * sulcal * * sulcus tubae auditivae * tympanic sulcus ----

    null

    English

    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
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----