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proctor | null |

As an adjective proctor

is (soil science) pertaining to the proctor test, a standardized test measuring soil moisture-density, especially for the requirements of construction projects: proctor density, proctor value .

As a proper noun proctor

is .

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

proctor

Alternative forms

* proctour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US) A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student.
  • (UK) An official at any of several older universities
  • (British, legal) A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts
  • (obsolete) One appointed to collect alms for those who could not go out to beg for themselves, such as lepers and the bedridden.
  • Synonyms

    * (examination supervisor) invigilator

    Derived terms

    *proctorial *proctorship

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (US) To function as a proctor.
  • To manage as an attorney or agent.
  • (Bishop Warburton)

    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 ----