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NULL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quantity of no importance

Example:

I didn't hear zilch about it

Synonyms:

aught; cipher; cypher; goose egg; nada; naught; nil; nix; nothing; null; zero; zilch; zip; zippo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("null" is a kind of...):

relative quantity (a quantity relative to some purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "null"):

nihil ((Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ))

bugger all; Fanny Adams; fuck all; sweet Fanny Adams (little or nothing at all)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lacking any legal or binding force

Example:

null and void

Synonyms:

null; void

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

invalid (having no cogency or legal force)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

nullity (something that is null (especially an enactment that has no legal validity))

 III. (verb) 

Sense 1

Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb null

Credits

 Context examples: 

Chi-square test is a statistical test for testing the null hypothesis that the distribution of a discrete random variable coincides with a given distribution.

(Chi-Square Test, NCI Thesaurus)

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) pulse sequence that uses an inversion recovery technique to null fluids present in the imaging area, improving clarity of the object of interest.

(Fluid Attenuated Inversion Recovery, NCI Thesaurus)

Jo sat as if blandly unconscious of it all, with deportment like Maud's face, 'icily regular, splendidly null'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A marital status in which a voidable marriage is legally declared null and void, as though it never existed.

(Annulled, NCI Thesaurus)

Either the Kolmogorov-Smirnov one-sample test, a goodness-of-fit test, that tests whether an observed dataset is consistent with an hypothesized theoretical distribution or the Kolmogorov-Smirnov two-sample test, a test of the null hypothesis that two independent samples have been drawn from the same population (or from populations with the same distribution).

(Komogorov-Smirnov Test, NCI Thesaurus)