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Eduard van der Null
Nüll, Eduard van der (1812–68). Austrian architect, involved in the Rundbogenstil fashion of the 1840s. He assisted Johann Georg Müller in the design and erection of the Altlerchenfeld Church, Vienna (1848–61), a brick structure in a pronounced and convincing Italian... Read more |
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Michelson-Morley experiment
Michelson-Morley Experiment The luminiferous ether The Michelson interferometer The null result Resources In 1887, two American scientists, Polish-born physicist Albert Abraham Michelson (1852–1931) and physical chemist Edward Williams Morley (1838 |
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Putative
PUTATIVE Alleged; supposed; reputed. A putative father is the individual who is alleged to be the father of an illegitimate child. A putative marriage is one that has been contracted in good faith and pursuant to ignorance, by one or both parties, that certain impediments exist to render it null... Read more |
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significance
significance (sig-nif-i-kăns) n. (in statistics) a relationship between two groups of observations indicating that the difference between them is unlikely to have occurred by chance alone. An assumption is made that there is no difference between the two populations from which the two groups... Read more |
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George Francis Fitzgerald
George Francis Fitzgerald 1851-1901, Irish physicist. Fitzgerald was born in Dublin and studied and taught at Trinity College there. He is best known for suggesting how the ether , by causing the contraction of bodies moving through it, could account for the null results of the Michelson-Morley... Read more |
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Royal Marriages Act
Royal Marriages Act, 1772. Prompted by the unsanctioned marriage of George III's brother Henry, duke of Cumberland, an Act was passed in 1772 making it illegal in future for any member of the royal family under the age of 25 to marry without the previous consent of the crown: all such marriages... Read more |
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Vacate
VACATE To annul, set aside, or render void; to surrender possession or occupancy. The term vacate has two common usages in the law. With respect to real property, to vacate the premises means to give up possession of the property and leave the area totally devoid of contents. To vacate a court... Read more |
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De facto Act
De facto Act, 1495. The name is misleading since the statute, 11 Hen. VII c. 1, does not appear, contrary to much commentary, to distinguish between kings de facto and kings de jure. Henry VII, victorious at Bosworth, faced a series of challenges to his throne. To buttress his position, this... Read more |
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inversion tectonics
...Provence examples. Such profiles reveal so-called null points. A null point is the point along an inverted fault at which...normal to reverse (Fig. 1). The position of the null point along a fault provides an indication of the magnitude... |
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Exclusionary Rule
...governmental power. Weeks posits that a search that exceeds the constitutional authority of law enforcement officials must be deemed null and void and treated accordingly. If the government had no authority to seize the evidence, then a court—another branch... |
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Nullification
...nullification, or by any other name—I conceive to be the fundamental principle of our system.” A state's right to declare null and void within its borders a federal branch of the solemn constitutional compact among sovereign and independent states, Calhoun... |
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TAUTOLOGY
...collected; free, gratis, and for nothing. In others, it is less obvious, because they contain archaic elements: by hook or by crook; a hue and cry; not a jot or tittle; null and void; rack and ruin. Compare CIRCUMLOCUTION, REDUNDANCY. |
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Jackson, Andrew
...on constitutional grounds and urging a lower tariff. When South Carolina, led by John Calhoun, declared the 1828 tariff null and void in 1832, and prepared to resist its collection, Jackson acted quickly to uphold federal supremacy, by force if necessary... |
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Amiens, mise of
...meeting at Amiens in January 1263, where Louis decided emphatically in favour of his fellow king, declaring the Provisions null and void. The result was not to settle the dispute but to force de Montfort and his supporters into open rebellion. J. A... |
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De facto Act
...duty to the king could be ‘in no wise convict of high treason’ and that any subsequent legislation to the contrary would be null and void. Whether an Act which could be repealed by a future Parliament gave comfort to anyone may be doubted. Perpetual edicts... |
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set
...objects are called the elements or members of the set. The number of members can be finite or infinite, or even be zero (the null set). Various relations can exist between two sets, A and B: A equals B if both sets contain exactly the same members; A... |
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Tariffs
...exports. When Congress passed another high tariff in 1832, the South Carolina legislature declared both the 1828 and 1832 tariffs null and void in the state, leading to a states'‐rights confrontation—the so‐called Nullification Crisis—pitting... |
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Anne of Cleves
...England. Her marriage (1540) was a political alliance joining Henry with the German Protestants, and was never consummated, being declared null after only six months. Anne received a pension, and remained in England until her death. |
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null
null / nəl/ • adj. 1. having no legal or binding...establishment of a new interim government was declared null and void. 2. having or associated with the value...positive substance or content: his curiously null life. • n. poetic/lit. a zero. ∎ a dummy letter... |
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null geodesic
null geodesic A path or geodesic joining two events in space-time along which the separation is zero. The separation...events has the opposite sign to that for their distance apart in space. Light in a vacuum travels along a null geodesic. |
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null point
null point 1. In nearshore, shoaling waters, each particle-size of sediment should hypothetically have a null point, where there is no net movement of the particle landward or seaward. It is the point where there is a balance between the... |
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hypothesis, null
hypothesis, null See NULL HYPOTHESIS. |
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null hypothesis
null hypothesis (nul hy-poth-i-sis) n. see significance. |
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null list
null list (empty list) See list. |
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null string
null string Another name for empty string. |
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null link
null link See linked list. |
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null matrix
null matrix (zero matrix) A square matrix, all the elements of which are zeros. |
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null character
null character A special character in a character set, denoting nothing, and usually (as in ASCII and EBCDIC) represented by zero. |
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null
null • adjective 1. render the ruling nullsynonyms: null and void, void, invalid, annulled, nullified, canceled, abolished, revoked, rescinded, repealed. 2. the null effects of the trade embargosynonyms: ineffectual, useless... |
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void
...antonym: occupied. 3. the election was void synonyms: invalid, null, ineffective, nonviable, useless, worthless, nugatory...invalidate are often used interchangeably as they both mean to make null or worthless (void a legal document by tearing it up; invalidate... |
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invalid
invalid3 • adjective 1. the contract is now invalidsynonyms: inoperative, legally void, null, null and void, void, not binding, nullified, revoked, rescinded, abolished. 2. an invalid assumption/argumentsynonyms... |
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nullify
nullify • verb synonyms: render null and void, declare null and void, annul, void, invalidate, cancel, abolish, set aside, revoke, rescind, repeal, reverse, abrogate, discontinue, retract, withdraw, renounce, repudiate, countermand... |
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cancel
...abandon, scrap, drop, ax, scrub, nix. 2. his visa has been canceled synonyms: annul, invalidate, nullify, declare null and void, void; revoke, rescind, retract, countermand, withdraw; Law vacate. 3. rising unemployment cancelled out earlier... |
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quash
quash • verb 1. quash the jail sentencesynonyms: annul, declare null and void, nullify, invalidate, void, cancel, overrule, override, overthrow, reject, set aside, reverse, revoke, rescind... |
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repeal
...verb the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed in 1933 synonyms: revoke, rescind, cancel, reverse, annul, nullify, declare null and void, quash, abolish; Law vacate; formal abrogate; archaic recall.antonym: enact. • noun the repeal of the law... |
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annul
annul • verb their parents wanted to get the marriage annulledsynonyms: declare invalid, declare null and void, nullify, invalidate, void, disallow; repeal, reverse, rescind, revoke; Law vacate; formal abrogate; recall.See note at void.antonyms: restore, enact. |
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inoperative
...on the fritz, out of commission, acting up, kaput.antonym: working. 2. the contract is inoperative synonyms: void, null and void, invalid, ineffective, nonviable; canceled, revoked, terminated; worthless, valueless, unproductive, abortive... |
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negate
negate • verb 1. facts negating your theorysynonyms: nullify, render null and void, annul, void, invalidate, cancel, revoke, rescind, abrogate, repeal, retract, countermand, disestablish, reject... |
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Null subjects: a reanalysis of the data.(Report)
...1) establishes a new concept relating to the incidence of null thematic pronouns, focusing on null thematic subjects. The data indicate that, in rich agreement languages with null subjects, prima facie, recovery of such subjects is achieved... |
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Null Models in Ecology.
...such a vitriolic nature, as has the use of null models in the discipline of community ecology. Null models have had such a controversial legacy...Nicholas Gotelli and Gary Graves present null models as a basic tool for community ecologists... |
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Defining null values in Microsoft Access.(SOFTWARE INTELLIGENCE)
...Middle Initial. The Value of Nulls When used for its stated purpose, null can be quite useful as shown in...the negative elements of using Nulls within your database: The Problem with Nulls Including null values within your data can have... |
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Null scores first title within own division
Herbie Null Jr. is no stranger to the winner's circle...invitational event in Bristol in 2000. But Null's Super Stock triumph at the Lucas Oil...ever won a major title in his own division. Null, who competed in Division 2 when he lived... |
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Null Has a Big Hand In Spartans' Success; Tournament Hopes Hinge on Senior...
Chris Null's hand hurt. The Broad Run High School...runner out and thus ending the game.Once Null did that, his teammates mobbed him, celebrating...Liberty District's top team -- but what Null had done in the victory. "Chris kind of... |
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Null wants City Council to act for good of Springs/ Mayoral candidate hopes...
Jim Null often says leading the Colorado Springs City...After six years as a member of the council, Null is running for mayor in the April 1 mail...year or so we're disjointed," he said. Null, 64, is halfway through his second term... |
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Dr. Gary Null and Gary Null & Associates Assigns Its Direct Marketing Program...
...signed an exclusive agreement with Dr. Gary Null (www.garynull.com), the man Time...Natural," to market his company's (Gary Null & Assoc., Inc.) full suite of over...CelebDirect a commission of up to 65% on Gary Null's full suite of products on an ongoing... |
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Smarandache Breadth pseudo null curves in Minkowski space-time.(Report)
...adapt Smarandache breadth curves to pseudo null curves in Minkowski space-time. We investigate...position vector of simple closed pseudo null curves and give some characterizations...0, time-like if g(v, v) < 0 and null (light-like) if g(v, v)=0 and... |
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On Frenet apparatus of partially null curves in semi-euclidean space.(Report)
...calculate Frenet apparatus of Partially Null curves. Thereafter, in the same space...prove that Frenet apparatus of a partially null evolute curve can be formed by involute...Keywords Semi-euclidean space, partially null curves, frenet apparatus. [section... |
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Characterization of integrin [beta]6 and thrombospondin-1 double-null mice
...overlapping and non-overlapping functions for TSP-1 and αvβ6, we crossed TSP-1-null and β6-null mice and compared the phenotype of the double-null mice with those of wild-type and single-null mice. The double-null mice exhibited... |
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