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autumn | null |

As a proper noun autumn

is of modern usage, from the name of the season.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

autumn

English

(wikipedia autumn)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Traditionally the third of the four seasons, when deciduous trees lose their leaves; typically regarded as being from September 24 to December 22 in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and the months of March, April and May in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}

    Usage notes

    (season name spelling)

    Synonyms

    * fall

    Derived terms

    * autumn-bells * autumn colors, autum colours * autumn crocus * autumn equinox * (Autumnfest) * autumn fever * autumn-fly * (Autumn Harvest Uprising) * autumn ice * autumnise, autumnize * autumn leaf color, autumn leaf colour * autumn meadowhawk * autumn olive * autumn pumpkin * autumn rustic * autumn skullcap * autumn sneezeweed * autumn-spring * autumn term * autumn-time * autumny * (German Autumn) * (Hot Autumn) * mid-autumn

    Related terms

    * Adonis autumnalis * autumnal * autumnal equinox * autumnian * autumnity * Colchichum autumnale * Coregonus autumnalis * Coregonus autumnalis migratorius * Dendrocygna autumnalis * Epirrita autumnata * Galerina autumnalis * Helenium autumnale * Leontodon autumnale'', ''Leontodon autumnalis * (Lacus Autumni) * Leptospira autumnalis * Leptus autumnalis * Musca autumnalis * Neotrombicula autumnalis * Plegadis autumnalis * Scilla autumnalis * Trombicula autumnalis

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or relating to autumn.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

    • See also

    * Indian summer * English terms derived from Etruscan 1000 English basic words

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
    • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
    • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.

    • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
    • (Milton)

    Related terms

    * annul

    See also

    * nil ----