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hundred | null |
(cardinal) A numerical value equal to (102), occurring after ninety-nine.
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(US, Canada) A hundred-dollar bill.
(historical) An administrative subdivision of land in southern English counties and in other countries.
(cricket) A score of one hundred runs or more scored by a batsman.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
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.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
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.
As nouns the difference between hundred and null
is that hundred is (us|canada) a hundred-dollar bill while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As a numeral hundred
is (cardinal) a numerical value equal to (102), occurring after ninety-nine.hundred
English
(wikipedia hundred)Alternative forms
* Arabic numerals: (see for numerical forms in other scripts) * Roman numerals: C * ISO prefix: hecto- * Exponential notation: 102Numeral
(en noun)- hundreds' of places, ' hundreds of thousands of faces
- a hundred', one ' hundred
- nineteen hundred', one thousand nine ' hundred
- That has really soared over the past a hundred years or so.
- [I]t applies to only the top twenty markets in removing the ban, whereas in two thousand three the FCC was essentially proposing removing it let's say in the top a hundred and seventy markets.
- Hanatonwas founded in the nineteen eighties, but from the original a hundred and fourteen members, by two thousand and six, only eleven were left.
- Overall, the top a hundred and seventy-five executives at the companies
- Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years.
Usage notes
Unlike cardinal numerals up to ninety-nine'', the word ''hundred'' is a noun like ''dozen and needs a determiner to function as a numeral. * a hundred''' men / one '''hundred''' men / the '''hundred men * compare a dozen men / one dozen men / the dozen men * compare ten men / the ten men Hundred'' can be used also in plurals. It doesn't take ''-s when preceded by a determiner. * two hundred''' men / some '''hundred men * hundreds of menSynonyms
* (numerical) one hundred *Derived terms
* hundredfold, hundredweight, hundredth, hundreds and thousands, hundredaireNoun
(en noun)- He made a hundred in the historic match.
Synonyms
* (US hundred-dollar bill) Franklin * centuryDerived terms
* hundredalSee also
* wapentakenull
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.