null

See also núll

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle French nul, from Latin nullus.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /nʌl/, SAMPA: /nVl/
• Rhymes: -ʌl

Noun

null (plural nulls)

1. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
2. Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
3. (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (␀), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
4. (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.

Adjective

null (comparative more null, superlative most null)

1. Having no validity, "null and void"
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.

Derived terms

• nullity

Verb

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

1. (transitive) to nullify

Related terms

• annul

See also

• nil

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Estonian

Numeral

null

1. (cardinal) zero

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nʊl/

Adjective

null (not comparable)

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

Synonyms

• kein
• überhaupt kein

Numeral

null

1. (cardinal) zero

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Norwegian

Numeral

null

1. (cardinal) zero

Noun

null

1. zero (numeric symbol of zero)
2. zero (derogatory about a person)

Inflection

    Inflection of null

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	null	nullen	nuller	nullene
Bokmål n	null	nullet	null/nuller	nulla/nullene
Nynorsk m	null	nullen	nullar	nullane
Nynorsk n	null	nullet	null	nulla [nulli]