NIL

nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo

(noun) a quantity of no importance; “it looked like nothing I had ever seen before”; “reduced to nil all the work we had done”; “we racked up a pathetic goose egg”; “it was all for naught”; “I didn’t hear zilch about it”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

nil (usually uncountable, plural nils)

Nothing; zero.

Determiner

nil

No, not any.

Anagrams

• -lin, Lin, Lin., lin, lin.

Noun

NIL (uncountable)

(nanotechnology) Initialism of nanoimprint lithography.

Anagrams

• -lin, Lin, Lin., lin, lin.

Source: Wiktionary


Nil. Etym: [See Nill, v. t.]

Definition: Will not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Nil, n. & a. Etym: [L., a contr. of nihil.]

Definition: Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping. A. J. Ellis.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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