definition of the word null

• Rhymes: -ʌl

From Middle French nul, from Latin nullus.

null (plural nulls)

1. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
2. Zero; nothing.
3. (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character, represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
4. (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.

null (comparative more null, superlative most null)

1. Having no legal validity, "null and void"
2. insignificant
   • 1924, Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove:

     In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.

3. absent or non-existent
4. (mathematics) of the null set
5. (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
6. (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.

• nullity

to null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)

1. (transitive) to nullify

• annul

• nil

null

1. (cardinal) zero

• IPA: /nʊl/

null

1. (cardinal) zero

null

1. (cardinal) zero

null m. (definite singular nullen; indefinite plural nuller; definite plural nullene)

1. zero

null n. (definite singular nullet; indefinite plural nuller; definite plural nulla/nullene)

1. zero (derogatory about a person)

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