NULL - 13 definitions found
null adj 1: lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn: null, void] n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo] null 1563, from M.Fr. nul, from L. nullus "not any, none," from ne- "not, no" + illus "any," dim. of unus "one." Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary null If an agreement, a declaration, or the result of an election is null and void, it is not legally valid. A spokeswoman said the agreement had been declared null and void... PHRASE: PHR after v English Explanatory Dictionary null nʌl adj. & n. --adj. 1 (esp. null and void) invalid; not binding. 2 non-existent; amounting to nothing. 3 having or associated with the value zero. 4 Computing a empty; having no elements (null list). b all the elements of which are zeros (null matrix). 5 without character or expression. --n. a dummy letter in a cipher. ønull character Computing a character denoting nothing, usu. represented by a zero. null hypothesis a hypothesis suggesting that the difference between statistical samples does not imply a difference between populations. null instrument an instrument used by adjustment to give a reading of zero. null link Computing a reference incorporated into the last item in a list to indicate there are no further items in the list. [F nul nulle or L nullus none f. ne not + ullus any] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Null \Null\, a. [L. nullus not any, none; ne not + ullus any, a dim. of unus one; cf. F. nul. See No, and One, and cf. None.] 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. --Tennyson. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Null \Null\, n. 1. Something that has no force or meaning. 2. That which has no value; a cipher; zero. --Bacon. Null method (Physics.), a zero method. See under Zero. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Null \Null\, v. t. [From null, a., or perh. abbrev. from annul.] To annul. [Obs.] --Milton. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Null \Null\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] One of the beads in nulled work. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms null a. 1. Void, invalid, useless, nugatory, of no efficacy, of no account, ineffectual. 2. Characterless, expressionless. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 51 Moby Thesaurus words for "null": aimless, bad, bare, barren, bland, blank, bleached, characterless, clear, designless, devoid, empty, existless, featureless, garbled, hollow, importless, inane, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, insignificant, insipid, invalid, lacking, meaningless, minus, missing, negative, nonconnotative, nondenotative, nonexistent, null and void, phatic, purportless, purposeless, scrambled, senseless, unexisting, unmeaning, unrelieved, unsignificant, useless, vacant, vacuous, void, white, with nothing inside, without being, without content, worthless null NULL(4) Linux Programmer's Manual NULL(4) NAME null, zero - data sink DESCRIPTION Data written on a null or zero special file is discarded. Reads from the null special file always return end of file, whereas reads from zero always return \0 characters. null and zero are typically created by: mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3 mknod -m 666 /dev/zero c 1 5 chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero NOTES If these devices are not writable and readable for all users, many pro- grams will act strangely. FILES /dev/null /dev/zero SEE ALSO chown(1), mknod(1) Linux 1992-11-21 NULL(4) |
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