Temperature vs Null - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) The state or condition of being tempered or moderated.
The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
* , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.136:
* 1759 , Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p.5:
* 1993 , James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love , Book II:
A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses.
(when not used in relation with something) The temperature(1) of the immediate environment.
(thermodynamics) A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random actual motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. [http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055]
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 temperature and null
is that temperature is temperature while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.temperature
English
(wikipedia temperature)Noun
(en noun)- Our intemperence it is that pulls so many several incurable diseases on our heads, that hastens old age, perverts our temperature , and brings upon us sudden death.
- that not only the production of a rational Being was concern'd in it, but that possibly the happy foundation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind […].
- Only a strong dose of love will cure / A woman with an angry temperature .
- The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
The climate of Tibet: Pole-land, passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}
- You have a temperature ; I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.
- The temperature dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold .
Quotations
* 2007 , James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition , pages 106–108: *: Heat and temperature', although different, are intimately related. [...] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their '''temperatures''' would change? [...] if the '''temperature''' of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding ' temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.Derived terms
* apparent temperature * Hagedorn temperature * Planck temperature * temperature inversionSee also
* Customary: degrees Fahrenheit (°F), degrees Rankine (°R, measures absolute temperature) * Metric: degrees Celsius/centigrade (°C), kelvins (K, measures absolute temperature) * * hot * warm * lukewarm * cool * cold * fresh * fever ----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.