'Null' definitions:

Definition of 'null'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn: null, void]
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 'Null'

From: GCIDE
  • Null \Null\, v. t. [From null, a., or perh. abbrev. from annul.] To annul. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Null'

From: GCIDE
  • Null \Null\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] One of the beads in nulled work. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Null'

From: GCIDE
  • Null \Null\, a. [L. nullus not any, none; ne not + ullus any, a dim. of unus one; cf. F. nul. See No, and One, and cf. None.]
  • 1. Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. [1913 Webster]
  • Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Having a value of zero; as, of null utility. [PJC]
  • 3. (Math.) Empty; having no members; as, the null set. [PJC]
  • 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. [PJC]

Definition of 'Null'

From: GCIDE
  • Null \Null\, n.
  • 1. Something that has no force or meaning. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which has no value; a cipher; zero. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • Null method (Physics.), a zero method. See under Zero. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'null'

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Words containing 'Null'