null

Etymology

From Middle French nul, from Latin nullus.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /nʌl/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʌl

Noun

null (plural nulls)

1. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
2. Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

3. Something that has no force or meaning.
4. (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
5. (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.

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

6. One of the beads in nulled work.
7. (statistics) null hypothesis

Adjective

null (comparative more null, superlative most null)

1. Having no validity; "null and void"
   • Jeremy Taylor

     Their baptizations were null.

2. insignificant
   • 1924, Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove:

     In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.

3. absent or non-existent
4. (mathematics) of the null set
5. (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
6. (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.

Verb

null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)

1. (transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

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

Related terms

• annul
• nulled work

See also

• nil

Numeral

null

1. (cardinal) zero

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Numeral

null

1. (cardinal) zero

Etymology

From Latin nullus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nʊlː/
• Rhymes: -ʊlː

Numeral

null

1. (cardinal) zero

Noun

null n (genitive singular nuls, plural null)

1. (mathematics) the numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nʊl/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

null (not comparable)

1. (slang) no, zero (absolutely none)

Numeral

null

1. (cardinal) zero

External links

• null in Duden online and null in Duden online; cp. null in Duden online and null in Duden online
• “null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache; cp. “Null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Etymology

From Latin nullus

Determiner

null

1. no (determiner: not any)

   ha null penger - to have no money

Numeral

null

1. (cardinal) zero, nought, nil

Noun

null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nuller, definite plural nullene)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null or nuller, definite plural nulla or nullene)

1. zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
2. a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)

References

• “null” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Etymology

From Latin nullus

Determiner

null

1. no (determiner: not any)

   ha null pengar - to have no money

Numeral

null

1. (cardinal) zero, nought, nil

Noun

null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nullar, definite plural nullane)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null, definite plural nulla)

1. zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
2. a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)

References

• “null” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

Compare German null.

Numeral

null

1. zero