violence English
Noun
Extreme force.
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Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
, volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=( The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Denied an education by war
, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
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Widespread fighting.
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(figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
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(obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
Related terms
* violent
* violate
* violation
Hypernyms
* (extreme force) force
Antonyms
* peace, nonviolence
See also
* domestic violence
* reverse domestic violence
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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)
Related terms
* annul
See also
* nil
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