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null
[ nuhl ]
adjective
- without value, effect, consequence, or significance.
- being or amounting to nothing; nil; lacking; nonexistent.
- Mathematics. (of a set)
- of measure zero.
- being or amounting to zero.
noun
- Electronics. a point of minimum signal reception, as on a radio direction finder or other electronic meter.
verb (used with object)
- to cancel; make null.
null
/ nʌl /
adjective
- without legal force; invalid; (esp in the phrase null and void )
- without value or consequence; useless
- lacking distinction; characterless
a null expression
- nonexistent; amounting to nothing
- maths
- quantitatively zero
- relating to zero
- (of a set) having no members
- (of a sequence) having zero as a limit
- physics involving measurement in which an instrument has a zero reading, as with a Wheatstone bridge
null
/ nŭl /
- Of or relating to a set having no members or to zero magnitude.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of null1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of null1
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Idioms and Phrases
- null and void, without legal force or effect; not valid:
This contract is null and void.
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Example Sentences
“A suspended sentence becomes null and void after a certain period of time,” Rofugaran said.
Because all of the Rescued Film Project images are scanned to digital, the necessity of a darkroom is null.
All this means the Constitutional Court could declare election results null and void.
Thus, a law that is unjust is morally null and void, and must be defied until it is legally null and void as well.
Journals aren't interested in null results or "yup, we replicated that other study"; they want new studies with new findings.
It also declared the acts of any partnership into which such spiritual person had been introduced to be null and void.
Everything which the revolutionary party had done since August 18,1789, was declared null and void.
In either case, according to the learned Dr. Sicklewit, the ceremony is utterly null and void of effect.
He had alleged that she was a woman of no character, and he had further alleged that their marriage was null and void.
There is no qualification that if we do not deem them legal we can treat them as null and void.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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