Hypertext Webster Gateway: "null"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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}.]
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. --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Null \Null\, n.
1. Something that has no force or meaning.
2. That which has no value; a cipher; zero. --Bacon.
{Null method} (Physics.), a zero method. See under {Zero}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Null \Null\, v. t. [From null, a., or perh. abbrev. from annul.]
To annul. [Obs.] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Null \Null\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
One of the beads in nulled work.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
null
adj : (law) lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void"
[syn: {void}]
n : 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}, {aught}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose
egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}]
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