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cam | null |

As a proper noun cam

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

cam

English

(CAM)

Etymology 1

Recorded since the 16th century, from (etyl) )

Noun

(en noun)
  • A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
  • A curved wedge, movable about an axis, used for forcing or clamping two pieces together.
  • (UK, dialect) A ridge or mound of earth.
  • (Wright)
  • (rock climbing) A camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
  • Derived terms
    * overhead cam

    See also

    * ("cam" on Wikipedia)

    Etymology 2

    From (camera), from the first part of (etyl) (camera)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) camera
  • Derived terms
    * camcorder * camgirl * cammer * camwhore * dashcam * nanny cam * Steadicam * webcam * webcammer

    Verb

  • To go on webcam with someone
  • Etymology 3

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Anagrams

    * acm ----

    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)

    See also

    * nil ----