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normally | null |

As an adverb normally

is under normal conditions or circumstances; usually; most of the time.

As a noun null is

a non-existent or empty value or set of values.

As an adjective null is

having no validity, "null and void.

As a verb null is

to nullify; to annul.

normally

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Under normal conditions or circumstances; usually; most of the time
  • Normally , I eat breakfast at 6am, but today, I got up late and didn't eat until 9.
  • In the expected or customary manner.
  • Lisa ate normally , until she realised that she was late for choir, when she sped up.
  • To a usual or customary extent or degree.
  • He was abnormally agitated, she only normally so.
  • (mathematics, statistics) In the manner of a variable with a Gaussian distribution.
  • Synonyms

    * (most of the time) commonly, frequently, ordinarily * (in the expected manner) customarily, habitually, routinely

    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 ----