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null

null [ nul ]


adjective 
Definition:
 
1. invalid: having no legal validity

2. valueless: having no value or importance

3. amounting to nothing: amounting to nothing in terms of context or character

4. at zero level: at the level of zero or nothing

5. mathematics relating to zero: relating to or equal to zero

6. mathematics empty: used to describe a mathematical set containing no elements
the null set

7. mathematics ending in zero: converging to zero
a null sequence

8. physics indicating reading of zero: indicating a reading of zero when a measured quantity is undetectable or equal to another in comparison



noun 
Definition:
 
( literary )
Same as  zero


[Mid-16th century. Via Old French nul< Latin nullus "not any"]

null and void not legally valid

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