Vigour vs Null - What's the difference?
vigour | null |
Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
* (rfdate) :
(biology) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action.
Strength; efficacy; potency.
* 1667 , :
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 vigour and null
is that vigour is active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.vigour
English
Alternative forms
* vigor (US) * vygour (obsolete)Noun
- The vigour of this arm was never vain.
- A plant grows with vigour.
- But in the fruithful earth His beams, unactive else, their vigour find.
Usage notes
Vigour and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.Derived terms
* envigorate * vigorous * hybrid vigor/hybrid vigournull
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.