void

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void (not comparable)

Positive
void

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)

  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.

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Singular
void

Plural
voids

void (plural voids)

  1. 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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Infinitive
to void

Third person singular
voids

Simple past
voided

Past participle
voided

Present participle
voiding

to 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

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