null
[nuhl]
- without value, effect, consequence, or significance.
- being or amounting to nothing; nil; lacking; nonexistent.
- Mathematics. (of a set)
- empty.
- of measure zero.
- being or amounting to zero.
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- Electronics. a point of minimum signal reception, as on a radio direction finder or other electronic meter.
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- to cancel; make null.
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- null and void, without legal force or effect; not valid: This contract is null and void.
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Origin of null
1555–65; < Latin nūllus, equivalent to n(e) not + ūllus any
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Related Words for null
worthless, inoperative, unreal, invalid, ineffective, void, negative, barren, bad, nothing, imaginary, absent, nonexistent, powerless, unavailing, useless, vain, inefficacious, characterless, unsanctionedExamples from the Web for null
Contemporary Examples of null
Because all of the Rescued Film Project images are scanned to digital, the necessity of a darkroom is null.
Journals aren't interested in null results or "yup, we replicated that other study"; they want new studies with new findings.
Blacks are saying that the old contract with America is null and void.
Historical Examples of null
As this marriage was null and void, there was no Marchioness of Morella.
Fair MargaretH. Rider Haggard
It all came to nothing: as poetry it never began to be more than null.
From a Cornish WindowArthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
If one of these three conditions is wanting, the ballot is null.
Napoleon the LittleVictor Hugo
If they do not proclaim him, my abdication must be null, and not made.
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. IIFleury de Chaboulon.
The changes of the Protectorate were treated as null and void.
History of the English PeopleJohn Richard Green
null
- without legal force; invalid; (esp in the phrase null and void)
- without value or consequence; useless
- lacking distinction; characterlessa 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
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Word Origin for null
C16: from Latin nullus none, from ne not + ullus any
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Word Origin and History for null
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null
[nŭl]
- Of or relating to a set having no members or to zero magnitude.
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