Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of forming nulls: as, a nulling -lathe; a nulling- tool.
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- verb Present participle of
null .
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Examples
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Using a technique called nulling interferometry, they hope to be able to find the first Earth-like planet orbiting a star.
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Using a technique called nulling interferometry, they hope to be able to find the first Earth-like planet orbiting a star.
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And Taking It AwayThe dazzling starlight collected by the separate telescopes can be made to cancel itself out through a process called "nulling," which reveals the far dimmer planets.
Out Where We Belong 2008
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Ragland and his collaborators are continuing to collect data on young stars and will combine their infrared observations with new data from the Keck Interferometer's "nulling" mode, a technique which will block out the light from the central star in a young planetary system.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Most of my close friend/family are nulling their vote or abstinate.
Global Voices in English » Mexico: Null Ballots and Low Turnout Expected on Election Day 2009
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And sure enough, the FF chewed through the snowy hairpins and esses like some six-figure Subaru, with the computers furiously stuttering the brakes, vectoring the torque, nulling out rotation.
The Coolest Ferrari Ever—Drive Carefully Dan Neil 2011
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The all-wheel-drive system has a torque-vectoring rear differential a new option this year, which actually over-rotates the outside rear wheel in corners, helping to turn the car and nulling out understeer.
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Thursday says clothes fold into neat rectangles, immideatly nulling the usefullness of his desgin.
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The torque-vectoring program will stutter the inside rear brake and automatically squeeze the e-throttle, helping to rotate the car and nulling out the AWD-inherent understeer, and if you're really gassing it on country lanes, the thing slides around like a proper sport sedan, except as driven from a bar stool.
A Rote SUV From BMW Dan Neil 2010
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Nor is it the all-wheel-drive system with a torque-vectoring rear differential (a new option this year), which actually over-rotates the outside rear wheel in corners, helping to turn the car and nulling out understeer (cf, Ferrari 's E-Diff).
The Better to Eat You With, Luxury Rivals DAN NEIL 2010
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