'Nil' definitions:
Definition of 'nil'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
Definition of 'Nil'
From: GCIDE
- Nil \Nil\ [See Nill, v. t.] Will not. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Nil'
From: GCIDE
- Nil \Nil\, n. & a. [L., a contr. of nihil.] Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping. --A. J. Ellis. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Nil'
From: GCIDE
- Nil \Nil\, n. (computers) A special value for a variable used in certain computer languages to mean no assigned value, to be distinguished from the value zero. [PJC]