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postpartisan | null |

As an adjective postpartisan

is moving past and beyond conventional partisan divides.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

postpartisan

English

Alternative forms

*post-partisan

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Moving past and beyond conventional partisan divides
  • *{{quote-news, 1995, September 18, Michael Handy, Ich Bin Ein Magazine Editor, Time citation
  • , passage=Last year Kennedy and partner Michael J. Berman, both editorial novices, brought their "postpartisan " concept to Hachette Filipacchi
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 6, author=David Brooks, title=The Gang System, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=If nurtured and used creatively, they can be the lever by which Obama transforms the landscape of government and creates a broad postpartisan coalition. }}

    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 ----