null
adjective
[ nʌl ]
• having no legal or binding force; invalid.
Similar:
invalid,
null and void,
void,
annulled,
nullified,
cancelled,
abolished,
revoked,
rescinded,
repealed,
• having or associated with the value zero.
• lacking distinctive qualities; having no positive substance or content.
• "his curiously null life"
Similar:
lacking in character,
empty,
characterless,
blank,
colourless,
expressionless,
vacuous,
insipid,
vapid,
inane,
null
noun
• a zero.
• a dummy letter in a cipher.
• a condition of no signal.
null
verb
• combine (a signal) with another in order to create a null; cancel out.
• "the tumour can be more readily identified by nulling the high signal from bone marrow"
Origin:
late Middle English: from French nul, nulle, from Latin nullus ‘none’, from ne ‘not’ + ullus ‘any’.
