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prescription | null |

As nouns the difference between prescription and null

is that prescription is (legal) the act of prescribing a rule, law, etc while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

As an adjective prescription

is (of a drug, etc ) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription.

prescription

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (legal) The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc. .
  • "Jurisdiction to prescribe " is a state's authority to make its laws applicable to certain persons or activities. -- Richard G. Alexander, Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996: Congress exceeds its jurisdiction to prescribe law. Washington and Lee Law Review, 1997.
  • (legal) A period of time within which a right must be exercised, unless the right is extinguished.
  • The prescription governing the victim’s right to enter a charge shall be interrupted by virtue of section 95 of the Criminal Code.
  • (medicine) A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.
  • The surgeon wrote a prescription for a pain killer and physical therapy.
  • (medicine) The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.
  • The pharmacist gave her a bottle containing her prescription .
  • (ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc. .
  • The optician followed the optometrist's prescription for her new eyeglasses.
  • A piece of advice.
  • "Early to bed and early to rise" is a prescription for a healthy lifestyle.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (of a drug, etc. ) only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription
  • Many powerful pain killers are prescription drugs in the U.S.

    See also

    * proscription ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Noun

    (f)
  • 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 ----