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English Dictionary: null	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
null adj lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn: null, void] n 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" Synonym(s): nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Null \Null\, v. t. [From null, a., or perh. abbrev. from annul.] To annul. [Obs.] --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Null \Null\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] One of the beads in nulled work.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
null A special value used in several languages to represent the thing referred to by an uninitialised pointer. A special value that may be stored in some database columns to represent an unknown, missing, not applicable, or undefined value. Nulls are treated completely differently from ordinary values when evaluating SQL expressions and there are several SQL constructs for dealing with nulls. (2003-06-17)