null
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null (nul)
adjective
- without legal force; not binding; invalid: usually in the phrase null and void
- amounting to naught; nil
- of no value, effect, or consequence; insignificant
- Math. designating, of, or being zero, as
- having all zero elements null matrix
- having a limit of zero null sequence
- having no members whatsoever null set
Etymology: MFr nul < L nullus, not any, none < OL *n(e) oin(o)los, not a one < ne, not (see no) + dim. of oinos < IE *oinos: see one
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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