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ingress | null |

As a proper noun ingress

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

ingress

English

Noun

(es)
  • The act of entering.
  • Permission to enter.
  • All ingress was prohibited.
  • A door or other means of entering.
  • (astronomy) The entrance of the Moon into the shadow of the Earth in eclipses, or the Sun's entrance into a sign, etc.
  • Antonyms

    * (act of entering) egress * (door or other means of entering) egress

    Derived terms

    * ingressive * ingress traffic * ingress router

    Verb

    (es)
  • To intrude or insert oneself
  • * {{quote-book, 1963, , The Gift: A Novel citation
  • , passage="Were you asleep? Did I disturb you?" he would ask, seeing Fyodor flat on his back on the sofa, and then, ingressing entirely, he would shut the door tightly behind him and sit by Fyodor 's feet }}
  • * {{quote-book, 2001, Lynda Schor, chapter=My Death, Mother Reader, editor=Moyra Davey citation
  • , passage=When the tub was full I ingressed into the water gently, insinuating my body in a bit at a time, enjoying the sensual pleasure of the extreme heat on the lower part of my body
  • To enter (a specified location or area)
  • * {{quote-book, 1976, , The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia: Aces and Aerial Victories citation
  • , passage= "We ingressed North Vietnam over Cam Pha on a westerly heading," reported Captain Madden.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1998, Michael William Donnelly, Falcon's Cry citation
  • , passage=We were ingressing the target area.}}
  • (intransitive, astrology, of a planet) To enter into a zodiacal sign
  • * {{quote-journal, 1861, date=December 28, , Almanacs, All the Year Round, volume=VI citation
  • , passage=The middle of March finds " Mars ingressing upon the 16th degree of Capricorn, where the sun has arrived in the nativity of Lord Palmerston,"
  • To manifest or cause to be manifested in the temporal world; to effect ingression
  • Derived terms

    * ingression * ingressive * ingressor

    Anagrams

    * singers * signers * resigns ----

    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 ----