void

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• IPA: /vɔɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔɪd

Etymology 1

From Old French vuit, voide (modern vide).

Adjective

void (not comparable)

1. Having lost all legal validity

   null and void

2. (computing, programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value.
   • 2005, Craig Larman, Applying UML and patterns

     In particular, the roll method is void — it has no return value.

   • 2007, Andrew Krause, Foundations of GTK+ Development

     The return value can safely be ignored if it is a void function.

Translations

Having lost all legal validity

• Dutch: ongeldig (nl), nietig (nl)
• Finnish: mitätön (fi), mitätöity (fi)
• French: nul (fr)
• German: ungültig (de), nichtig (de)
• Hungarian: érvénytelen (hu), semmis (hu)
• Indonesian: batal (id)

• Interlingua: nulle (ia), invalide (ia)
• Norwegian: ugyldig (no)
• Polish: nieważny (pl) m
• Portuguese: nulo (pt) m, inválido (pt) m
• Spanish: nulo (es) m, inválido (es) m

in computing

• Spanish: nulo (es) m, inválido (es) m

Noun

Wikipedia void (plural voids)

1. An empty space; a vacuum.

   Nobody had crossed the void since one man died trying three hundred years ago; it's high time we had another go.

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.

Translations

An empty space; a vacuum

• Czech: prázdnota (cs) f
• Danish: tomrum (da) n
• Dutch: vacuüm (nl), leegte (nl)
• Finnish: tyhjiö (fi)
• French: vide (fr) m, néant (fr) m
• German: Leere (de) f
• Hungarian: üresség (hu), űr (hu)
• Indonesian: hampa (id)
• Interlingua: vacuo (ia)
• Italian: vacuo (it) m, vuoto (it) m

• Norwegian: intet (no) n, tomhet (no) m, vakuum (no) n
• Polish: pustka (pl) f
• Portuguese: vazio (pt) m, vácuo (pt) m
• Russian: пустота́ (ru) (pustotá) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: празнина (sh) f

  Latin: praznina (sh) f

• Slovene: praznina (sl) f
• Spanish: vacío (es) m

Verb

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

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To withdraw, depart.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I.16:

     suche ii brethren as is kyng Ban & kyng bors ar not lyuynge, wherfore we must nedes voyde or deye.

2. (transitive) To make invalid or worthless.

   He voided the check and returned it.

3. (transitive, medicine) To empty.

   void one’s bowels

Synonyms

• (make invalid or worthless): annul, cancel
• ((engineering) collection of vacancies): pore
• ((engineering) pocket of vapour in fluid): bubble
• ((medicine) to empty): evacuate

Translations

to make invalid or worthless

• Dutch: annuleren (nl), ongeldig maken (nl)
• Finnish: mitätöidä (fi)
• French: annuler (fr), résilier (fr), révoquer (fr)
• German: löschen (de), annullieren (de)
• Indonesian: membatalkan (id)

• Interlingua: annullar (ia), invalidar (ia)
• Norwegian: annulere (no), gjøre ugyldig (no)
• Portuguese: anular (pt), invalidar (pt)
• Spanish: anular (es), invalidar (es)

(medicine) to empty

• Dutch: legen (nl)
• Finnish: tyhjentää (fi)
• German: entleeren (de), leeren (de)
• Hungarian: ürít (hu)
• Indonesian: mengosongkan (id)

• Interlingua: vacuar (ia), evacuar (ia)
• Norwegian: tømme (no)
• Portuguese: esvaziar (pt), evacuar (pt)
• Spanish: evacuar (es)

Etymology 2

Alteration of voidee.

Noun

void (plural voids)

1. (now rare, historical) A voidee. [from 15th c.]
   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 68:

     Late on the final evening, as the customary ‘void’ – spiced wine and sweetmeats – was served, more elaborate disguisings in the great hall culminated in the release of a flock of white doves.

Anagrams

• Ovid

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• voit

Verb

void

1. third-person singular indicative present form of veoir