null

Examples

• All

• The database returned a null entry when I queried for user data that didn't exist.

• When the function encountered an error, it returned a null result, indicating no data was processed.

• Again, records 5, 6, 7, 8 will be NULL based on rule 1.

  Blog text (3)

• Now if we make a bad choice, we go and test theories that are wrong, then the only thing we get are null results.

• It's kind of the baseline or the null set for this research data.

• The following null hypothesis was tested at the 5% level of significance:

  Academic text (2011)

• Despite the null results of the Viking missions, there is still hope to find life on Mars.

  Academic text (2000)

• Therefore, the null hypothesis was retained at the 0.05 level of significance.

  Academic text (1997)

• Election authorities counted 43% "yes" votes and classified 2.3% of the votes as blank or null.

  Academic text (1992)

• A legal loophole to declare that promissory note null and void.

  The Shrink Is In (2001)

Synonyms

N

nil

vsnull

• Specialized

1 8.3

A special programming value that shows nothing is stored

is the general computing term for absence of data or unassigned value

Antonyms

V

value

∞ 1.3

How much something is worth in money or how useful it is

D

data

215 1.6

Facts and numbers collected to study things or make decisions

Idioms

N

null and void

• Formal

12 4.8

Not legally valid or binding

Compounds

N

null set

• Specialized

1 6.2

A set that has no members

N

null space

• Specialized

9.6

A set of vectors that a matrix sends to the zero vector

Surface Forms

Etymology