Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Nothing; zero.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In musical acoustics, a minute interval, equal to a fifty-first part of a semitone.
- noun Nothing.
- noun See
nill .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete Will not.
- noun (computers) A special value for a variable used in certain computer languages to mean no assigned value, to be distinguished from the value zero.
- Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Nothing ;zero . - determiner No, not any.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a quantity of no importance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin nīl, contraction of nihil; see ne in Indo-European roots.]
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From Latin nil, a contraction of nihil, nihilum ("nothing"). See nihilism.
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