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null

nəl
WordNet
  1. (adj) null
    lacking any legal or binding force "null and void"
  2. (n) null
    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"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Null
    (Math) Empty; having no members; as, the null set.
  2. Null
    Having a value of zero; as, of null utility.
  3. Null
    One of the beads in nulled work.
  4. Null
    Something that has no force or meaning.
  5. Null
    That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
  6. Null
    To annul.
  7. Null
    (Computers) Unassigned or meaningless; -- a special value given to variables, especially pointers or logical variables, indicating that it is meaningless and cannot be used in computation; as, an uninitialized pointer in "C" is given a null value. The actual value that is stored in memory to indicate the null condition may vary with the computer language used.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. null
    Not any; wanting; non-existent.
  2. null
    Void; of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid.
  3. null
    Of no account or significance; having no character or expression; negative.
  4. (n) null
    Something that has no force or meaning; that which is of a negative or meaningless character; a cipher, literally or figuratively.
  5. (n) null
    Specifically In musical notation, the character 0, denoting
  6. (n) null
    in thorough-bass, that the bass note over which it is placed is to be played alone, the other parts resting;
  7. (n) null
    in the fingering for stringed instruments, that the note over which it is placed is to be played on an open string.
  8. (n) null
    The raised part in nulling or nulled work. This when small resembles a bead; when longer, a spindle.
  9. null
    To annul; deprive of validity; destroy; nullify.
  10. null
    To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe. See nulling.
  11. null
    To kink: said of a whalemen's line as it runs from the line-tub.
  12. null
    Zero in algebraic measure.
  13. null
    In math. logic, noting a propositional function when it is false for all values of x.
  14. (n) null
    Specifically, one of the bids in the game of skat. Same as misère. See skat.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Null
    nul of no legal force: void: invalid: of no importance
  2. (n) Null
    something of no value or meaning, a cipher: a bead-like raised work
  3. (v.t) Null
    to annul, nullify
  4. (v.i) Null
    to kink: to form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe
Quotations
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Idioms

Null and void - If something's null and void, it is invalid or is no longer applicable.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. nullus, not any, none; ne, not + ullus, any, a dim. of unus, one; cf. F. nul,. See No, and One, and cf. None

Usage in the news

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Null , 90, of Paris, MO, passed away at Monroe Manor Nursing Home in Paris, MO, on Sunday, October 14, 2012. moberlymonitor.com

Women's British Open golf: High winds stop play, early scores declared ' null and void'. blog.syracuse.com

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A rare appearance by GARY NULL in Southern California on Saturday August 4th where he will debut two of his brand new films and will also be giving a lecture afterwards. kpfk.org

Usage in scientific papers

It is important to note from (4.18) that even though the path is 5D null, it is not necessarily 4D null.
Null Geodesics in Five Dimensional Manifolds

The latter represent the only known examples describing moving, radiating ob jects; except for points of null infinity where particles start and end, the null infinity is smooth.
Radiative spacetimes

The null energy condition. T µν nµnν ≥ 0, for all null vectors nµ .
The Classical Singularity Theorems and their Quantum Loopholes

That is, if we assume the weak energy condition, then the null energy condition follows by continuity as uµ approaches a null vector. 4.
The Classical Singularity Theorems and their Quantum Loopholes

Similarly, the unobservability subspace is the null space of Wo(T ). A linear system is then observable if and only if Wo(T ) is nonsingular (i.e. the null space is empty).
Coarse graining and control theory model reduction

Usage in literature

Pour nulle riens, 865. "An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly" by Anonymous

In which case the smile renders the protest null and void. "The Book of Khalid" by Ameen Rihani

There would not even be need of null-censor. "We're Friends, Now" by Henry Hasse

And yet it remains a delicate question, whether any committee can have the power of declaring the bargains null and void. "Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846" by Various

Now they were null and void. "The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI" by Various

Outside that limited space of ground it was null and void. "Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew" by Robert McReynolds

It was a one-man job; the plastic was dense, but under null-gee conditions it was easy to maneuver. "Hanging by a Thread" by Gordon Randall Garrett

My resignation had been considered as null and void: he had preserved all my places for me. "Adventures in the Philippine Islands" by Paul P. de La Gironière

All promises of abjuration were declared null and void. "History of the Rise of the Huguenots" by Henry Baird

I will send them back; seeing that the betrothal is null and void, and mere child's play. "Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851." by Various

Usage in poetry
Il pleure sans raison
Dans ce coeur qui s'ecoeure.
Quoi! nulle trahison?...
Ce deuil est sans raison.
But what must he do who is dull,
And how shall he ever proceed
When every attempt is as null?
O where is the rhyme that I need?
The gospel makes me keep the law,
Yet from its painful service draw;
It does all law demands fulfil,
Yet makes them wholly void and null.
For the fears and the years that are null,
And the hopes Thou dost bring to nought,
And the worm—thridden ways of the skull
In which Shakespeare thought.
If I had died last year when Death
And I were at finger-tips, till Life
Slipping between blew her warm breath
Into my heart again and veins,
And opened my eyes and nulled my pains--
And pierced anon with such a light as this;
Blindness worth more than every other sight,
Pains sweeter far than other pleasures are,
For to the fairest light
Thou art thyself a guide,
Show to the soul all lower things are null.