null

Having no legal force; invalid.

Of no consequence, effect, or value; insignificant.

Amounting to nothing; absent or nonexistent.

Of or relating to a set having no members or to zero magnitude.

To make null.

Zero; nothing.

An instrument reading of zero.

To annul; deprive of validity; destroy; nullify.

To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe. See nulling.

To kink: said of a whalemen’s line as it runs from the line-tub.