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null

/nʌl/ noun

Latin root: nūllus Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about null at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. A quantity of no importance.
    it looked like nothing I had ever seen before

adjective

  1. Lacking any legal or binding force.
    null and void

Origin

Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin nūllus.

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