void

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English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old French vuit, voide (modern vide).

Adjective[edit]

void (not comparable)

  1. Having lost all legal validity
    null and void
  2. (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.
Translations[edit]
Having lost all legal validity
in computing

Noun[edit]

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  1. An empty space; a vacuum.
    Nobody has crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.
    • Alexander Pope
      Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense.
  2. (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies
  3. (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
  4. (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
Translations[edit]
An empty space; a vacuum

Verb[edit]

void (third-person singular simple present voids, present participle voiding, simple past and past participle voided)

  1. (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.
  2. (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
    He voided the check and returned it.
  3. (transitive, medicine) To empty.
    void one’s bowels
Synonyms[edit]
  • (make invalid or worthless): annul, cancel
  • ((engineering) collection of vacancies): pore
  • ((engineering) pocket of vapour in fluid): bubble
  • ((medicine) to empty): evacuate
Translations[edit]
to make invalid or worthless
(medicine) to empty

Etymology 2[edit]

Alteration of voidee.

Noun[edit]

void (plural voids)

  1. (now rare, historical) A voidee. [from 15th c.]
    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 68:
      Late on the final evening, as the customary ‘void’ – spiced wine and sweetmeats – was served, more elaborate disguisings in the great hall culminated in the release of a flock of white doves.

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Verb[edit]

void

  1. third-person singular indicative present form of veoir
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