void
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɔɪd
[edit] Adjective
void (not comparable)
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- Having lost all legal validity
- (computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
- 2005, Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns
- In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.
- 2007, Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development
- The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.
- 2005, Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns
[edit] Translations
Having lost all legal validity
[edit] Noun
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void (plural voids)
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- Nobody had crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
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An empty space; a vacuum
[edit] Verb
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to void (third-person singular simple present voids, present participle voiding, simple past and past participle voided)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I.16:
- suche ii brethren as is kyng Ban & kyng bors ar not lyuynge, wherfore we must nedes voyde or deye.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I.16:
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
- He voided the check and returned it.
- (transitive) (medicine) To empty.
- void one’s bowels
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[edit] Translations
to make invalid or worthless
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(medicine) to empty