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indelible | null |

As an adjective indelible

is having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

indelible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having the quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface
  • This ink spot on the contract is indelible .
    This stain on my shirt is indelible .
  • incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten
  • That horrible story just might make an indelible impression on the memory.
  • * 2014 , (Ruzwana Bashir), " The untold story of how a culture of shame perpetuates abuse. I know, I was a victim", The Guardian , 29 August 2014:
  • During our investigation it became clear that for three decades many other women had suffered at the hands of our abuser, but they had refused to testify against him because of the indelible stigma it would bring.
  • incapable of being annulled
  • * Sprat
  • They are endued with indelible power from above.

    Synonyms

    * unerasable

    Antonyms

    * delible * (difficult to delete) uninsertable

    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 ----