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Peduncle vs Null - What's the difference?

peduncle | null |

As nouns the difference between peduncle and null

is that peduncle is (botany) the axis of an inflorescence; the stalk supporting an inflorescence while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

peduncle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) The axis of an inflorescence; the stalk supporting an inflorescence.
  • (botany) A short stalk at the base of a leaf or reproductive structure.
  • *
  • On fertilization, the archegonia form obyriform calyptrae that are distinctly narrowed at base to form a stalk or peduncle ; this does not occur in other Hepaticae.
  • (anatomy) A bundle of neurons connecting different parts of the brain.
  • (anatomy) In arthropods, the base segments of an antenna.
  • (anatomy) A stem attaching a mass of tissue (such as a polyp) to the body.
  • (zoology) A collection of nerves in the appendage of an animal (such as the tip of a dolphin's tail).
  • 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 ----