Meaning & use
null
Having no legal force or value, or, in technology and mathematics, representing zero or the absence of a value.
See it in a sentence
The contract was declared null and void after the fraud was discovered.
The database field returned null because no value had ever been entered.
A note on using this word
Null is common in the fixed phrase null and void, and in computing describes a field or variable that holds no data at all.
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