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crashworthy | null |

As an adjective crashworthy

is (of a vehicle) capable of withstanding a crash.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

crashworthy

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
  • *1998 , Athanasios G. Mamalis, Crashworthiness of composite thin-walled structural components :
  • Knowledge, therefore, of the conditions prevailing, which are not uniquely defined during the static or dynamic axial collapse, leads to an estimate of the mechanical response and the crashworthy behaviour of the structural component [...]
  • (of a social event) Worthy of being gatecrashed.
  • * 2007 , Tate Hallaway, Dead Sexy , Berkley (2007), ISBN 9780425215081, unnumbered page:
  • “This is a traditional wake,” I explained, hoping that maybe the addition of an actual corpse might convince them this party wasn't crash-worthy .
  • * 2011', Wendy Gillis, " Five '''crashworthy holiday parties — and one you can attend", ''The Toronto Star , 2 December 2011(used in title only)
  • * 2014 , Edward Joffe, Before Mandela's Rainbow , AuthorHouse (2014), ISBN 9781481784979, page 169:
  • In the unlikely event of there being no crashworthy weekend parties,

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    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 ----