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contextural | null |

As an adjective contextural

is relating to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

contextural

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Relating to contexture or arrangement of parts; producing contexture; interwoven.
  • * 1666 , Dr. John Smith
  • Again, the contextural expressions are of the self-same nature, both those that follow in the allegory, namely, the silver cord, and the golden bowl: and also those that immediately precede, namely, the grasshopper, and the almond-tree

    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 ----