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prefixe | null |

As a verb prefixe

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

prefixe

English

Verb

  • *mid-15th century , Letters of Margaret of Anjou , Number 90, p. 123:
  • *:We, desiryng a final conclusion thereof, to reste and quiete of oure said tenants, praye yow hertely tht ye will, atte reverance of us, prefixe and set a day to mete with oure counseil
  • * 15th century? , in The History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery (1840) by James Aungier
  • *:And the sustres, like as they by them selfe procede to the eleccion of the abbes and chese her, so they schal by themselfe prefixe the day that thei schal procede to the eleccion.
  • *1576 , on a tombstone transcribed in A survey of the cities of London and Westminster (1733), Book III, p. 684:
  • *:In Shrop?hire'' at the ''Mindtowne'' borne, / the Time we here prefixe , / And dyed the Seventh of ''February'', / in ''Anno Seventy Sixe.
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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 ----