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NULL
null, void
(adjective) lacking any legal or binding force; “null and void”
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
null (plural nulls)
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero quantity of 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.
Adjective
null (comparative more null, superlative most null)
Having no validity; "null and void"
Insignificant.
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.
Antonyms
• antinull
• non-null
Verb
null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)
(transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul.
To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
(computing, slang, transitive) To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).
Proper noun
Null (plural er-noun or Nulls)
A surname.
Source: Wiktionary
Null, a. Etym: [L. nullus not any, none; ne not + ullus any, a dim. of unus one; cf. F. nul. See No, and One, and cf. None.]
Definition: Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. Tennyson.
Null, n.
1. Something that has no force or meaning.
2. That which has no value; a cipher; zero. Bacon. Null method (Physics.), a zero method. See under Zero.
Null, v. t. Etym: [From null, a., or perh. abbrev. from annul.]
Definition: To annul. [Obs.] Milton.
Null, n. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.]
Definition: One of the beads in nulled work.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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