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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NULL, v.t. [L. not any.] To annul; to deprive of validity; to destroy. [Not much used.] [See Annul.]
NULL, a. Void; of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid. The contract of a minor is null in law, except for necessaries.
NULL, n. Something that has no force or meaning. A cipher is called a null. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Anglo-French nul, literally, not any, from Latin nullus, from ne- not + ullus any; akin to Latin unus one — more at no, one Date: circa 1567 1. having no legal or binding force ; invalid 2. amounting to nothing ; nil 3. having no value ; insignificant 4. a. having no elements <null set> b. having zero as a limit <null sequence> c. of a matrix having all elements equal to zero 5. a. indicating usually by a zero reading on a scale when a given quantity (as current or voltage) is zero or when two quantities are equal — used of an instrument b. being or relating to a method of measurement in which an unknown quantity (as of electric current) is compared with a known quantity of the same kind and found equal by a null detector 6. of, being, or relating to zero 7. zero 1c II. noun Date: 1605 1. zero 3a(1) 2. a. a condition of a radio receiver when minimum or zero signal is received b. a minimum or zero value of an electric current or of a radio signal III. transitive verb Date: 1643 to make null

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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. Phrases and idioms: null 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. Etymology: F nul nulle or L nullus none f. ne not + ullus any

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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 1913 Dictionary

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 1913 Dictionary

Null Null, v. t. [From null, a., or perh. abbrev. from annul.] To annul. [Obs.] --Milton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Null Null, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] One of the beads in nulled work.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Void, invalid, useless, nugatory, of no efficacy, of no account, ineffectual. 2. Characterless, expressionless.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To beat: as, He nulled him heartily.

Moby Thesaurus

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