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null

/nʌl/

noun

Meaning

  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.

  • Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.

  • Something that has no force or meaning.

  • The ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.

  • The attribute of an entity that has no valid value.

    "Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null."

  • One of the beads in nulled work.

  • Null hypothesis.

verb

Meaning

  • To nullify; to annul.

  • To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.

  • To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).

adjective

Meaning

  • Having no validity; "null and void"

  • Insignificant.

  • Absent or non-existent.

  • Of the null set.

  • Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.

  • (of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.