| word | null |
|---|---|
| definition | (1) Having no legal power; invalid. (2) Having no elements. |
| eg_sentence | If we can prove that you signed the contract because you were being physically threatened, it will automatically be declared null. |
| explanation | Null is used mostly by lawyers, mathematicians, and computer programmers. In law, it usually occurs in the phrase “null and void” (which means about the same thing as null itself). When one of the parties that has signed a contract doesn't hold up his or her part of the deal—for example, if a contract states that a supplier must supply a million screws of a certain quality of steel, and it turns out the screws supplied were of inferior steel—the other company can refuse to pay anything, claiming the contract is null and void. In mathematics, null means “lacking any elements”; a null set is a set of figures that's actually empty. In computer programming, a null is a character that doesn't actually show up as a character, but instead may just be required to show that a series of digits or characters is finished |
| IPA | nəl |
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