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fraternal | null |

As an adjective fraternal

is of brothers (fraternal twins ).

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

fraternal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of brothers (fraternal twins ).
  • Related through a brother (fraternal nephew ).
  • In need of a brother or sister or friend.
  • Like brothers (fraternal cousins ).
  • Brotherly, befitting or of a brother or brothers.
  • *
  • a delighted shout from the children swung him toward the door again. His sister, Mrs. Gerard, stood there in carriage gown and sables, radiant with surprise. ¶ "Phil!  You!   Exactly like you, Philip, to come strolling in from the antipodes—dear fellow!" recovering from the fraternal embrace and holding both lapels of his coat in her gloved hands.
  • Friendly or brotherly (e.g. fraternal relations between socialist parties in different countries).
  • Being or of a society of men linked in brotherly union ( ).
  • Platonic (as fraternal love - brotherly love).
  • Synonyms

    * brotherly

    Antonyms

    * sororal * paternal, maternal

    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 ----