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null - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'null' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Null [ a.]
- Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
2 . Null [ n.]
- Something that has no force or meaning.
- That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
- One of the beads in nulled work.
3 . Null [ v. t.]
- To annul.

Meaning of 'null' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . null [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a quantity of no importance
Example in sentence:
  • I didn't hear zilch about it;
  • it looked like nothing I had ever seen before;
  • it was all for naught;
  • reduced to nil all the work we had done;
  • we racked up a pathetic goose egg
2 . null [ s]
Meaning (2):
- lacking any legal or binding force
Example in sentence:
  • null and void