"null character" meaning in English

See null character in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: null characters [plural]
Etymology: null + character Etymology templates: {{com|en|null|character}} null + character Head templates: {{en-noun}} null character (plural null characters)
  1. (computing) A control character with the value zero and no visual representation. Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: [symbol]
    Sense id: en-null_character-en-noun-E1Qd9QFO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for null character meaning in English (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "null",
        "3": "character"
      },
      "expansion": "null + character",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "null + character",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "null characters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "null character (plural null characters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A control character with the value zero and no visual representation."
      ],
      "id": "en-null_character-en-noun-E1Qd9QFO",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "control character",
          "control character"
        ],
        [
          "zero",
          "zero"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A control character with the value zero and no visual representation."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "symbol"
          ],
          "word": "␀"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "null character"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "null",
        "3": "character"
      },
      "expansion": "null + character",
      "name": "com"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "null + character",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "null characters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "null character (plural null characters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A control character with the value zero and no visual representation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "control character",
          "control character"
        ],
        [
          "zero",
          "zero"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A control character with the value zero and no visual representation."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "symbol"
      ],
      "word": "␀"
    }
  ],
  "word": "null character"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.