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null

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adjective

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.

noun

Electronics. a point of minimum signal reception, as on a radio direction finder or other electronic meter.

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a function having the dependent variable expressed directly in terms of the independent variables, such as y = 3x + 4

the method of finding the fourth term in a proportion when three terms are given

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verb (used with object)

to cancel; make null.

Idiom

null and void, without legal force or effect; not valid: This contract is null and void.

Origin:
1555–65; < Latin nūllus, equivalent to n(e) not + ūllus any

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To start afresh, the derivatives of the real estate should be declared null and void.

The null hypothesis is that the two variances are the same.

Since then it has sought unilaterally to declare the arbitral award null and void.

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To start afresh, the derivatives of the real estate should be declared null and void.

The null hypothesis is that the two variances are the same.

Since then it has sought unilaterally to declare the arbitral award null and void.

Michelson thought it dragable but it is not as such null result.

So we'd have to test against a null hypothesis in the first place.

Null said he had a poor education and never made it through high school.

And if it does not, the agreement is rendered null and void.

Then they go through the same recitations all over again, with the same null result.

It's probably the major field in which papers get published with null hypothesis results.

The biggest problem is that the people is not educated enough and the perception of being punished for any misdoing is null.

So it would seem that demonizing solar and wind power via natural gas plants is a null argument.

Sadly, what was once a void is now almost null and void.

Certain scientific journals sift through null results to find statistically significant results, and then publish them.

The shareholders were upset, and the vote was declared null and void.

The danger is that these agreements will be rendered null by the chaos.

Incorrectly rejecting the null hypothesis would mean believing that global warming is caused by people when it's not.

Every attorney in the world knows that if a rule is in contradiction to a statute, the rule is null and void”.

To do this you may need to plug a null cable into the microphone jack to shut off the internal microphone.

Tax authorities are increasingly able to declare null and void any transaction whose sole purpose is the avoidance of tax.

The food is designed to render criticism null and void.

It is the burden of the researchers who want to disprove the null hyothesis that their ideas are beyond disrepute.

The intercontinental ballistic missile has rendered all such notions null and void.

Yes, it's based on an actual regression, but it's meaningless: you cannot reject the null that there's no relationship at all.

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World English Dictionary

null (nʌl)

—*adj*
1.	without legal force; invalid; (esp in the phrase null and void)
2.	without value or consequence; useless
3.	lacking distinction; characterless: a null expression
4.	nonexistent; amounting to nothing
5.	maths
	a. quantitatively zero
	b. relating to zero
	c. (of a set) having no members
	d. (of a sequence) having zero as a limit
6.	physics involving measurement in which an instrument has a zero reading, as with a Wheatstone bridge

[C16: from Latin nullus none, from ne not + ullus any]

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Word Origin & History

null

"void of legal force," 1563, from M.Fr. nul, from L. nullus "not any, none," from ne- "not, no" (see un-) + illus "any," dim. of unus "one."

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Science Dictionary

null (nŭl) Pronunciation Key
Of or relating to a set having no members or to zero magnitude.

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Computing Dictionary

null definition

programming
A special value used in several languages to represent the thing referred to by an uninitialised pointer. database
A special value that may be stored in some database columns to represent an unknown, missing, not applicable, or undefined value. Nulls are treated completely differently from ordinary values when evaluating SQL expressions and there are several SQL constructs for dealing with nulls.
(2003-06-17)

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