Reflux vs Null - What's the difference?
reflux | null |
the backwards flow of any fluid
* 1719-
(chemistry) a technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period
(pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus
To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser
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 reflux and null
is that reflux is the backwards flow of any fluid while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb reflux
is to boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser.reflux
English
(wikipedia reflux)Noun
(es)- ...after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river Orinoco...
Derived terms
* gastroesophageal reflux * nonreflux * reflux condenser * refluxateVerb
null
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.