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tremulous | null |

As an adjective tremulous

is trembling, quivering, or shaking.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

tremulous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Trembling, quivering, or shaking.
  • * 1850 , , The Scarlet Letter , ch. 3:
    • The trying nature of his position drove the blood from his cheek, and made his lips tremulous .
  • * 1919 , , A Man Four-Square , ch. 27:
    • "Thank God!" he cried brokenly, all the pent emotion of the long night vibrant in his tremulous voice.
  • *'>citation
  • Timid, hesitant, or unconfident.
  • * 1891 , , The Great Taboo , ch. 15:
    • "You have lived here long?" Felix asked, with tremulous interest, as he took a seat.
  • * 2009 Oct. 7, , " Opinion: Gourmet to All That," New York Times (retrieved 18 Aug 2012):
    • This, hard on the heels of the death of Julia Child in 2004, makes one tremulous about the future.

    Synonyms

    * quaking, shaking, trembling, tremulant * timid, wavering

    Related terms

    * *

    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 ----