nullity
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English
Etymology
From Middle French nullité and its etymon Medieval Latin nūllitās, from Latin nūllus.[1] By surface analysis, null + -ity.
Pronunciation
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Noun
nullity (countable and uncountable, plural nullities)
- The state of being null, or void, or invalid.
- nullity of marriage
- (law) A void act; a defective proceeding or one expressly declared by statute to be a nullity.
- (mathematics) The dimension of the kernel of a linear transformation; the dimension of the nullspace of a matrix.
Derived terms
Translations
the state of being null, or void, or invalid
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References
- ^ “nullity, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
