Sublimate vs Null - What's the difference?
sublimate | null |
(ambitransitive, physics) To change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state.
To purify or refine a substance through such a change of state.
(psychoanalysis) To modify the natural expression of a sexual or primitive instinct in a socially acceptable manner; to divert the energy of such an instinct into some acceptable activity.
(archaic) To raise to a place of honor; to refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.
* Dr. H. More
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 sublimate and null
is that sublimate is (chemistry) a product obtained by sublimation while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a verb sublimate
is (ambitransitive|physics) to change state from a solid to a gas (or from a gas to a solid) without passing through the liquid state.sublimate
English
Verb
(sublimat)- The precepts of Christianity are so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt.
See also
* freeze-drynull
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.