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Null   /nəl/   Listen
adjective
Null  adj.  
1.
Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. "Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more."
2.
Having a value of zero; as, of null utility.
3.
(Math.) Empty; having no members; as, the null set.
4.
(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.


noun
Null  n.  
1.
Something that has no force or meaning.
2.
That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
Null method (Physics.), a zero method. See under Zero.


Null  n.  One of the beads in nulled work.


verb
Null  v. t.  To annul. (Obs.)





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"Null" Quotes from Famous Books



... are maintained save for France's right to annul on grounds of public interest. Judgments of courts hold in certain classes of cases while in others a judicial exequatur is first required. Political condemnations during the war are null and void and the obligation to repay war fines is established as in other parts of ...
— World's War Events, Volume III • Various
... of houses not made with hands! What, have fear of change from Thee who art ever the same? Doubt that Thy power can fill the heart that Thy power expands? There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is naught, is silence implying sound; 70 What was good, shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the ...
— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning
... yet, nevertheless, these positions, Faber quisque fortunae suae: Sapiens dominabitur astris: Invia virtuti null est via, and the like, being taken and used as spurs to industry, and not as stirrups to insolency, rather for resolution than for the presumption or outward declaration, have been ever thought sound and good; and are no question imprinted in the greatest ...
— The Advancement of Learning • Francis Bacon
... telegraphed the word 'talk', tried to draw her out, and administered covert pokes with her foot. Jo sat as if blandly unconscious of it all, with deportment like Maud's face, 'icily regular, splendidly null'. ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott
... married in name, but his marriage was no marriage; he had separated from his wife by the direction of the Grand Duke, his father—in this he spoke the truth, but the reason was far different—his so-called marriage was soon to be set aside as null and void, ...
— A Queen's Error • Henry Curties


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