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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a quantity of no importance;
- Example: "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"
- Example: "reduced to nil all the work we had done"
- Example: "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"
- Example: "it was all for naught"
- Example: "I didn't hear zilch about it"
[syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. lacking any legal or binding force;
- Example: "null and void"
[syn: null, void]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Null \Null\, n.
   1. Something that has no force or meaning.
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   2. That which has no value; a cipher; zero. --Bacon.
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   Null method (Physics.), a zero method. See under Zero.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Null \Null\, v. t. [From null, a., or perh. abbrev. from annul.]
   To annul. [Obs.] --Milton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Null \Null\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.]
   One of the beads in nulled work.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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            Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null,
            Dead perfection; no more.             --Tennyson.
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   2. Having a value of zero; as, of null utility.
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   3. (Math.) Empty; having no members; as, the null set.
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   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.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

51 Moby Thesaurus words for "null":
   aimless, bad, bare, barren, bland, blank, bleached, characterless,
   clear, designless, devoid, empty, existless, featureless, garbled,
   hollow, importless, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious,
   insignificant, insipid, invalid, lacking, meaningless, minus,
   missing, negative, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonexistent,
   null and void, phatic, purportless, purposeless, scrambled,
   senseless, unexisting, unmeaning, unrelieved, unsignificant,
   useless, vacant, vacuous, void, white, with nothing inside,
   without being, without content, worthless