null

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.4 Adjective 1.4.1 Derived terms 1.5 Verb 1.6 Related terms 1.7 See also 2 Estonian 2.1 Numeral 3 German 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Numeral 4 Norwegian 4.1 Numeral 4.2 Noun

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle French nul, from Latin nullus.

[edit] Pronunciation

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

[edit] Noun

null (plural nulls)

1. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
2. Zero; 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.

[edit] Adjective

null (comparative more null, superlative most null)

1. Having no legal 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.

[edit] Derived terms

• nullity

[edit] Verb

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

1. (transitive) to nullify

[edit] Related terms

• annul

[edit] See also

• nil

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[edit] Estonian

[edit] Numeral

null

1. (cardinal) zero

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[edit] German

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /nʊl/

[edit] Numeral

null

1. (cardinal) zero

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[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Numeral

null

1. (cardinal) zero

[edit] Noun

null m. (definite singular nullen; indefinite plural nuller; definite plural nullene)

1. zero

null n. (definite singular nullet; indefinite plural nuller; definite plural nulla/nullene)

1. zero (derogatory about a person)