Noun

(en noun)

Angular distance measured west or east of the prime meridian.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03

, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter , title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , volume=100, issue=2, page=87 , magazine= citation , passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}

Any imaginary line perpendicular to the equator and part of a great circle passing through the North Pole and South Pole.

(archaic) Length.

* {{quote-book, passage=His shoulders are remarkably sloping, giving an appearance of great longitude to his neck.

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, page=504 , title=The American Quarterly Review , volume=10 , year=1831 , chapter=Griffin's Remains , author=Francis Griffin}}

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