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wherein | null |

As an adverb wherein

is how, or in what way.

As a conjunction wherein

is where, or in which location.

As a noun null is

zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

wherein

English

Adverb

(-)
  • How, or in what way.
  • * Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me? 1 Kings 18:9
  • See also

    *

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • Where, or in which location.
  • * Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel. Numbers 35:34
  • During which.
  • * There is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. Ecclesiastes 8:9
  • How, or in what way.
  • * In order to show them wherein they were wrong, Samuel was instructed to bear witness against them... 1 Samuel 8:9
  • English pronominal adverbs English words not following the I before E except after C rule

    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 ----