Void and Zero

noun

• The state of nonexistence.
  • synonyms: nothingness, nullity, nihility
• An empty area or space.
  • usage: "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum"
  • synonyms: vacancy, emptiness, vacuum

verb

• Declare invalid.
  • usage: "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea"
  • synonyms: invalidate, annul, quash, avoid, nullify
• Clear (a room, house, place) of occupants or empty or clear (a place or receptacle. of something)
  • usage: "The chemist voided the glass bottle"; "The concert hall was voided of the audience"
• Take away the legal force of or render ineffective.
  • usage: "invalidate a contract"
  • synonyms: invalidate, vitiate
• Excrete or discharge from the body.
  • synonyms: evacuate, empty

adjective

• Lacking any legal or binding force.
  • usage: "null and void"
  • synonyms: null
• Containing nothing.
  • usage: "the earth was without form, and void"

• (a.) Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like.
• (a.) Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
• (a.) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2.
• (a.) Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning or of common use.
• (n.) An empty space; a vacuum.
• (a.) To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify.
• (a.) Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
• (a.) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.
• (v.i.) To be emitted or evacuated.
• (a.) To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements.
• (a.) Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

Having no legal force or binding effect; a nullity; not enforceable. A' void' agreement is no contract at all. A void contract need not be disaffirmed, nor can it be ratified. A contract for an illegal purpose (for example, gambling) is void. A voidable contract is one that is able to be voided. Voidable implies a valid act that may be rejected by an act of disaffirmance, rather than an invalid act that may be confirmed. For example, if a minor contracts to buy a diamond ring, the contract can be voided by the minor because of lack of sufficient age. If, however, the minor elects to enforce the contract, the contract is valid and the other party cannot assert the minor's lack of age as a defense.

noun

• A quantity of no importance.
  • usage: "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
  • synonyms: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zilch, zip, zippo
• A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number.
  • synonyms: 0, nought, cipher, cypher
• The point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured.
  • synonyms: zero point
• The sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing.

verb

• Adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value.
• Adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun. )
  • usage: "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards"
  • synonyms: zero in

adjective

• Indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration.
  • usage: "a zero score"
  • synonyms: 0
• Having no measurable or otherwise determinable value.
  • usage: "the goal is zero population growth"
• Indicating an initial point or origin.
• Of or relating to the null set (a set with no members. ).

• (n.) The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences.
• (n.) Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his patience had nearly reached zero.
• (n.) A cipher; nothing; naught.

• Name Meaning: Empty
• Name Origin: Arabic, Greek