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forte | null |

As an adjective forte

is strong.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

forte

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A strength or talent.
  • He writes respectably, but poetry is not his forte .
  • The strong part of a sword blade, close to the hilt.
  • Usage notes
    Traditionally, , a two-syllable pronunciation also came into common use. Both pronunciations are now standard.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Adjective

  • (music) Loud. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, "f.", to indicate raising the volume of the music. (Abbreviated in musical notation with an f, the Unicode character 1D191.)
  • This passage is forte , then there's a diminuendo to mezzo piano.

    Adverb

  • (music) Loudly.
  • The musicians played the passage forte .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A passage in music to be played loudly; a loud section of music.
  • This forte marks the climax of the second movement.
    See also
    * piano

    References

    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 ----