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nor | null |

As a symbol nor

is the iso 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for norway.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

nor

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither.

Conjunction

(English Conjunctions)
  • (literary) And not ()
  • * (Boethius)
  • Out with it, nor hold it fast within your breast.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott),
  • And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= T time , passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
  • (Used to introduce a further negative statement)
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor , indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.}}
  • (UK, dialect, Yorkshire) Than.
  • See also
    * neither

    Etymology 2

    Possibly ; alternatively, short for "negation of OR".

    Noun

    (Logical NOR) (en noun)
  • (logic, electronics)
  • See also

    * and * nand * or * xor

    Statistics

    *

    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 ----