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radiates | null |

As a verb radiates

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

radiates

English

Verb

(head)
  • (radiate)
  • Anagrams

    * *

    radiate

    English

    (radiation)

    Verb

    (radiat)
  • To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii.
  • To emit rays or waves.
  • The stove radiates heat.
  • To come out or proceed in rays or waves.
  • The heat radiates from a stove.
  • * John Locke
  • Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our eyes.
  • To illuminate.
  • To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.
  • To manifest oneself in a glowing manner.
  • to spread into new habitats, migrate.
  • Synonyms

    * (to expose to radiation) irradiate

    Derived terms

    * radiator

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
  • a radiate crystal
  • Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture.
  • (botany) Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.
  • (biology) Having radial symmetry, like a seastar.
  • (zoology) Belonging to the Radiata.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) One of the Radiata.
  • Anagrams

    * English ergative verbs ----

    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 ----