null

[ nuhl ]
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adjective
  1. without value, effect, consequence, or significance.

  2. being or amounting to nothing; nil; lacking; nonexistent.

  1. Mathematics. (of a set)

  2. being or amounting to zero.

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

verb (used with object)
  1. to cancel; make null.

Idioms about null

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

Origin of null

1
1555–65; <Latin nūllus, equivalent to n(e) not + ūllus any

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British Dictionary definitions for null

null

/ (nʌl) /


adjective
  1. without legal force; invalid; (esp in the phrase null and void)

  2. without value or consequence; useless

  1. lacking distinction; characterless: a null expression

  2. nonexistent; amounting to nothing

  3. maths

    • quantitatively zero

    • relating to zero

    • (of a set) having no members

    • (of a sequence) having zero as a limit

  4. physics involving measurement in which an instrument has a zero reading, as with a Wheatstone bridge

Origin of null

1
C16: from Latin nullus none, from ne not + ullus any

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Scientific definitions for null

null

[ nŭl ]


  1. Of or relating to a set having no members or to zero magnitude.

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