null

null
1. noun /nʌl/
a) A non-existent or empty value or set of values.

Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.

b) Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
2. adjective /nʌl/
a) Having no legal validity, "null and void"

In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.

3. verb /nʌl/
See Also: annul

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