null

/nʌl/

Thân thiện

The contract was declared null by the court.

Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Having no legal or binding force; invalid: "null" describes something that has no legal effect or validity.
   • Amounting to nothing; nil or zero: In technical contexts, "null" can mean having a value of zero or constituting nothing.
   • Without character or expression; insignificant: It can describe something lacking distinctive qualities or value.

2. Noun:

   • A zero value; nothing: "null" can refer to the concept of zero or an empty, valueless quantity.
   • A non-existent or negligible amount: It signifies an amount so small it is considered as nothing.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The contract was declared null after the breach. (The agreement was officially stated to be invalid.)
  • The result of the equation was null. (The final value calculated was zero.)
• Noun:
  • The search returned a null. (The query yielded no results or a zero value.)
  • He reduced the complex argument to a null. (He simplified the complicated point until it meant nothing.)

Advanced Usage

• "null and void": A legal phrase meaning completely invalid and without force.
  • The judge ruled the old law null and void.
• "null hypothesis": In statistics, a default hypothesis that there is no relationship between two measured phenomena, which one seeks to test and potentially reject.
  • The experiment failed to reject the null hypothesis.
• "null set": In mathematics, a set with no elements; an empty set.
  • The intersection of those two groups is a null set.

Variants and Related Words

• Nullify (verb): To make legally null and void; to cancel out.
  • The new agreement will nullify the old one.
• Nullity (noun): The state of being null, especially in legal terms; something that is null.
  • The court confirmed the nullity of the marriage.

Synonyms

• Invalid: Not legally acceptable.
• Void: Completely empty or without legal force.
• Nil: Nothing, zero (often used in scores).
• Zero: The numerical figure 0; nothing.

Related Phrases

• To render null: To cause something to become invalid.
  • His actions could render the warranty null.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. lacking any legal or binding force
   • null and void

Noun

1. 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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• void