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labyrinthine | null |

As an adjective labyrinthine

is physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

labyrinthine

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.
  • * 1996 , Steen L. Jensen, H. Gregerson. M. H. Shokouh-Amin, F. G. Moody, (eds.), Essentials of Experimental Surgery: Gastroenterology , page 27/4
  • In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.
  • * 2011 , Lincoln Child, Deep Storm , page 185
  • Crane trotted along the labyrinthine corridors of deck 3, accompanied by a young marine with close-cropped blond hair.
  • Twisting, convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.
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  • * 2000 , Joseph J. Ellis, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation , page 51
  • Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson's famously elusive mind.
  • * 2005 , Michael W. Riley, "Plato's Cratylus: Argument, form, and structure", page 103
  • By coupling "essence" with "name" within a series of contraposed pairs of names, Socrates indicates the point to which he thinks his labyrinthine argument has led so far in the Cratylus .

    Synonyms

    * (resembling a labyrinth) labyrinthal, labyrinthial, labyrinthian, labyrinthic, labyrinthical, labyrinthiform * baffling, confusing, convoluted

    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 ----