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commons | null |

As a proper noun commons

is (politics) the house of commons, part of the parliament under the westminister system of parliamentary democracy.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

commons

English

Noun

(head)
  • A dining hall, usually at a college or university.
  • A central section of (usually an older) town, designated as a shared area, a common.
  • The Renaissance festival started with the "peasants" meeting in the commons .
    The commons is the green space surrounded by the village hall, the school, and the church.
    The commons of New England towns are important contributors to their charm.
  • (figuratively) The mutual good of all; the abstract concept of resources shared by more than one, for example air, water, information.
  • "The tragedy of the commons " is that none wish to make sacrifices of their or their family's interests for the common good.

    Derived terms

    * digital commons * tragedy of the commons

    References

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    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 ----