null

From Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus, from ne (“not”) + ūllus (“any”).

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /nʌl/

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• Rhymes: -ʌl

null (plural nulls)

1. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
2. Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: Printed [by Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], OCLC 932932554, folio 61, recto:

     The kindes of Cyphars, (beſides the Simple Cyphars with Changes, and the intermixtures of Nvlles, and Nonsignificants) are many, according to the Nature or Rule of infoulding : Wheele-Cyphars, Kay-Cyphars, Dovbles, &c.

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

null (comparative more null, superlative most null)

1. Having no validity; "null and void"
   • a. 1667, Rev. Jeremy Taylor, “Clerus Domini: or, A Discourse of the Divine Institution, Necessity, Sacredness, and Separation of the Office Ministerial”, in Ενιαυτος: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays Of the year, 3rd edition, London: E. Tyler, page 19:

     And however Firmilian and S. Cyprian might be deceived in the thinking hereticks quite loſt their orders ; yet in this they were untouched, that although their ſuppoſition was queſtionable, yet their ſuperſtructure was not meddled with, viz. That if they had been Lay-perſons, their Baptizations were null and invalid.

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.

• antinull
• non-null

• null determiner
• nullary
• nullity

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

1. (transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul.
   • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes”, in Paradise Regain’d, 5th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1707, page 144:

     Thy fair enchanted cup, and warbling charms / No more on me have pow’r, their force is null’d, / So much of Adders wiſdom I have learnt / To fence my ear againſt thy Sorceries.

2. To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
3. (computing) To crack, to remove restrictions or limitations in software.

• annul
• nulled work

• nil

null

1. zero

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

null

1. zero

From Latin nullus.

• IPA^(key): /nʊlː/
• Rhymes: -ʊlː

null

1. zero

null n (genitive singular nuls, plural null)

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

• IPA^(key): /nʊl/

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null (not comparable)

1. (slang) no, zero (absolutely none)
2. (law) null (having no validity)

• kein
• überhaupt kein

null

1. zero, (British) nought (number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all)
2. (sports) nil, (tennis) love, zero (no score)

• 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

From Latin nullus

null

1. no (determiner: not any)

   ha null penger - to have no money

null

1. zero, nought, nil

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)

• nullstille
• nulltoleranse
• nullvekst

• “null” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin nullus

null

1. no (determiner: not any)

   ha null pengar - to have no money

null

1. zero, nought, nil

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)

• nulltoleranse
• nullvekst

• “null” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Compare German null.

null

1. zero