Stricture vs Null - What's the difference?
stricture | null |
(usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action
a sternly critical remark or review
(medicine) abnormal narrowing of a canal or duct in the body
(obsolete) strictness
(obsolete) a stroke; a glance; a touch
(linguistics) the degree of contact, in consonants
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 stricture and null
is that stricture is (usually in plural) a rule restricting behaviour or action while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.stricture
English
Noun
(en noun)- For them, parity is less an ultimate goal than a transitory and permissive springboard for testing Western resolve and pursuing whatever additional accretions of strategic power the strictures of SALT and American tolerance will allow.
- A man of stricture and firm abstinence. — Shakespeare.
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.