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fireproof | null |

As an adjective fireproof

is resistant to damage from fire.

As a verb fireproof

is to make resistant to damage from fire.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

fireproof

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Resistant to damage from fire.
  • The fireproof safe will protect documents inside for up to four hours in a standard house fire.

    Synonyms

    * (resistant to damage from fire ): fire-resistant, flame-retardant

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make resistant to damage from fire.
  • I hastily fireproofed my clothing somewhat by pouring a bucket of water over myself before dashing into the flames.

    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 ----