null

(nŭl)

adj.

1. Having no legal force; invalid: render a contract null and void.

2. Of no consequence, effect, or value; insignificant.

3. Amounting to nothing; absent or nonexistent: a null result.

4. Mathematics Of or relating to a set having no members or to zero magnitude.

tr.v. nulled, null·ing, nulls

To make null.

1. Zero; nothing.

2. An instrument reading of zero.

[French nul, from Old French, from Latin nūllus; see ne in Indo-European roots.]

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null

(nʌl)

adj

1. without legal force; invalid; (esp in the phrase null and void)

2. without value or consequence; useless

3. lacking distinction; characterless: a null expression.

4. nonexistent; amounting to nothing

5. (Mathematics) maths

a. quantitatively zero

b. relating to zero

c. (of a set) having no members

d. (of a sequence) having zero as a limit

6. (General Physics) physics involving measurement in which an instrument has a zero reading, as with a Wheatstone bridge

[C16: from Latin nullus none, from ne not + ullus any]

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null

(nʌl)
adj.

1. without value or significance.

2. being or amounting to nothing; nil.

3. Math. (of a set)

a. empty.

b. of measure zero.

4. being or amounting to zero.

5. a point of minimum signal reception, as on a radio direction finder or other electronic meter.

v.t.

6. to cancel; make null.

Idioms:

null and void, without force or effect; not valid.

[1555–65; < Latin nūllus=n(e) not + ūllus any]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	null - 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" goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, zero, zilch, zip, zippo, aught, cypher, cipher relative quantity - a quantity relative to some purpose nihil - (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ); "nihil habet" Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams - little or nothing at all; "I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"; "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery"
Adj.	1.	null - lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" void law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" invalid - having no cogency or legal force; "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license"

null

adjective

null and void invalid, useless, void, worthless, ineffectual, valueless, inoperative The agreement had been declared null and void.

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null

noun

No thing; not anything:

nil, nothing.

Informal: zero.

Slang: nix, zilch.

Archaic: aught.

Translations

null

nulo

zéro

nullo annullare nulla

нуль

null

[nʌl] ADJ → nulo, inválido
to render sb's efforts null → invalidar los esfuerzos de algn
null and void (Jur) → nulo

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null

[ˈnʌl] adj
null and void → nul(le) et non avenu(e); [agreement, contract, results]
to be declared null and void → être déclaré(e) nul(le) et non avenu(e)

null

adj (Jur) act, decree → (null und) nichtig, ungültig; to render something null and void → etw null und nichtig machen

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null

[nʌl] adj null and void (Law) → nullo/a

null

a. nulo-a, sin valor, inútil;

___ hypothesis → hipótesis ___.