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optical | null |

As an adjective optical

is of, or relating to sight; visual.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

optical

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to sight; visual
  • Strabismus is an optical defect.
    (rfex)
  • Designed to assist or enhance sight
  • A microscope is an optical instrument.
  • Of, or relating to optics
  • Refraction is an optical effect.
  • Of, or relating to visible light
  • Optical telescopes don't work when it is cloudy.
  • Incorporating light-sensitive devices
  • An optical switch opens the door automatically.

    Anagrams

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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)

    See also

    * nil ----