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The harness exits the delay loop if the process object becomes non-null, meaning the process has been found, or if the loop has executed 50 times. if (p = = null) throw new Exception ( "Failed to find CryptoCalc process"); else Console.

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  1. adjective Having no legal force; invalid: render a contract null and void.
  2. adjective Of no consequence, effect, or value; insignificant.
  3. adjective Amounting to nothing; absent or nonexistent: a null result.
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  • “Inflated with helium here at null-null, Martian sea level, that would give a diameter of just over sixty meters and a height of about thirty-five meters, which should easily lift the gondola, you, the Device, and the squirt radio to the fringes of space or the top of Olympus,” said Orphu. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
  • Presumably a text entry of the literal word "null" currently appears the same as a null, so it is currently ambiguous anyway. —  MacUpdate - Mac OS X
  • Explicitly setting sqlConnection to null is a legacy of the classic VB / COM days when these things were reference counted. —  Coding Horror
  • An LAL-null (lal (- / -)) mouse model resembles human WD / CESD with storage of CEs and TGs in multiple organs. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The returned result of fadeIn is not null, as one might otherwise assume, but the very same jQuery container —  doggdot.us
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  1. French nul, from Old French, from Latin nūllus; see ne in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =F. nul, nulle = Spanish nulo = Portuguese It nullo, not any, from Latin nullus, not any, none, no (feminine nulla (sc. res), later Italian nulla, later G. null, nulle = Icelandic nul = Swedish noll, nolla = Danish nul, n., zero, cipher, naught), from ne, not, + ullus, any, for *unulus, diminutive (with indefinite effect) of unus, one: see one, and cf. English any, ult. from one.
  2. from Middle Latin nullare, make null, from Latin nullus, not any, none: see null, adjective Cf. annul.
 

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