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adjective

Null adj.

1.

Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. "Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more."

2.

Having a value of zero; as, of null utility.

3.

(Math.) Empty; having no members; as, the null set.

4.

(Computers) Unassigned or meaningless; a special value given to variables, especially pointers or logical variables, indicating that it is meaningless and cannot be used in computation; as, an uninitialized pointer in "C" is given a null value. The actual value that is stored in memory to indicate the null condition may vary with the computer language used.

noun

Null n.

1.

Something that has no force or meaning.

2.

That which has no value; a cipher; zero.

Null method (Physics.), a zero method. See under Zero.

Null n. One of the beads in nulled work.

verb

Null v. t. To annul. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Null'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... are briefly: (1) The Jameson Raid of Dec. 29th, 1895, gives the South African Republic the right in perpetuity to regard the Convention of 1884 as null and void. (2) The Jameson Raid gives the Government of the South African Republic the right to treat all Uitlanders, especially the British, as Boers treat Kaffirs. (3) The Jameson Raid gives the Government of the South African Republic an undefined and perpetual ...

— Boer Politics • Yves Guyot

... the innocent party, except when the children are below the age of five years, in which case they are left with the mother. Mutual consent of the married is not a ground for divorce. All marriages contracted in opposition to the canon laws are considered null. The Diocesan Council is the sole competent authority to judge affairs of divorce, its decisions being submitted to the ...

— Bulgaria • Frank Fox

... is, dame: 'Donations stipulated revocable at the pleasure of the donor are null. But this condition does not apply to donations by contract of ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... not properly a Manifesto, but an anonymous memoir published in the Newspapers, explaining to impartial mankind, in a legible brief manner, what the old and recent History of Herstal, and the Troubles of Herstal, have been, and how chimerical and "null to the extreme of nullity (NULLES DE TOUT NULLITE)" this poor Bishop's pretensions upon it are. Voltaire expressly piques himself on this Piece; [Letter to Friedrich: dateless, datable "soon after 17th September;" which the rash dark Editors have by guess misdated "August; "or, what was safer for ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XI. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... affirmed by Henry, and not denied by Francis, that the latter advised Henry to bring the dispute to a close, by a measure from which he could not recede; that he recommended him to act on the general opinion of Europe that his marriage with Queen Catherine was null, and at once upon his return to England to make Anne ...

— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude

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