Definition of null

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null    (nl) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:

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.

TRANSITIVE VERB:
nulled, null·ing, nulls

To make null.

NOUN:

1. Zero; nothing.
2. An instrument reading of zero.

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ETYMOLOGY:
French nul, from Old French, from Latin nllus; see ne in Indo-European roots