void

English Online Dictionary. What means void‎? What does void mean?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪd
• Hyphenation: void

Etymology 1

From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.

Adjective

void (not comparable)

1. Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
   • c. 1619–22, Philip Massinger and John Fletcher, A Very Woman

     I'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, / I may run over the story of his country.

2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
3. (with of) Being without; destitute; devoid.
4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
5. Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

   null and void
6. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
7. (programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
8. (bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.

Descendants

• → Welsh: foed

Translations

Noun

void (plural voids)

1. An empty space; a vacuum.
2. (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
3. (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
4. (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
5. (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
6. (Internet, humorous, endearing) A black cat.

7. An empty place; A location that has nothing useful.
8. (bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.

   Coordinate terms: singleton, doubleton

Synonyms

• ((engineering) collection of vacancies): pore
• ((engineering) pocket of vapour in fluid): bubble

Hyponyms

• ((astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies): Local Void

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

void (third-person singular simple present voids, present participle voiding, simple past and past participle voided)

1. (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
2. (transitive, medicine) To empty.

3. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.

Synonyms

• (make invalid or worthless): annul, cancel
• ((medicine) to empty): evacuate

Derived terms

• (medicine): postvoid

Translations

Etymology 2

Alteration of voidee.

Noun

void (plural voids)

1. (now rare, historical) A voidee. [from 15th c.]

Anagrams

• Ovid, divo

Indonesian

Etymology

From English void, from Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from a Late Latin vocitus, related to Latin vacuus (“empty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvoɪt̚]
• Hyphenation: vo‧id

Adjective

void

1. (law) void: of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

Noun

void (plural void-void, first-person possessive voidku, second-person possessive voidmu, third-person possessive voidnya)

1. (architecture) void: An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.

   Synonym: ruang hampa

Further reading

• “void” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• voit

Verb

void

1. third-person singular indicative present of veoir