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contextless | null |

As an adjective contextless

is without context.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

contextless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • without context
  • * {{quote-news, year=2006, date=March 24, author=Mia Lily Clarke, Monica Kendrick, Brian McManus, title=Short Takes on Recent Releases, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=Like their fellow Glaswegians in Arab Strap, Scatter like to add contextless and slightly cryptic monologues to their music--an unfortunate predilection, since the delivery usually sounds forced and overstrict alongside the impulsive swells of the band's free-folk drone. }}
  • * {{quote-journal, 2000, date=December 22, David Foster Wallace, FICTION: Rhetoric and the Math Melodrama, Science citation
  • , passage=What is a problem, though, is that the fictional math in WN is extremely important but also extremely vague, comprising mostly repeated and contextless verbiage--"If I could only establish its K-reducibility with the aid of a suitable calibrator set!" }}

    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 ----