Definitions and meaning of void
void
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɔɪd/
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- Rhymes: -ɔɪd
- Hyphenation: void
Etymology 1
From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Late Latin vocitus, related to Latin vacuus (“empty”).
Adjective
void (not comparable)
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
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- 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.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- (with of) Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
- null and void
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- (programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.
- (bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.
Descendants
Translations
Noun
void (plural voids)
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- (astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- (materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- (fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- (construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- (Internet, humorous, endearing) A black cat.
- An empty place; A location that has nothing useful.
- (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)
- (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.
- (transitive, medicine) To empty.
- To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
- (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
Translations
Etymology 2
Alteration of voidee.
Noun
void (plural voids)
- (now rare, historical) A voidee. [from 15th c.]
Anagrams
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
- (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)
- (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 Indonesia, 2016.
Middle French
Alternative forms
Verb
void
- third-person singular indicative present of veoir
Source: wiktionary.org