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N/u language
N/u or N/uu is a Khoisan language spoken by the ‡Khomani people in South Africa. N/u belongs to the Ta’a-!Kwi language family, with /Xam being its closest relative. The slash symbol in these names represents a click like the English interjection tsk! tsk! used to express pity or shame; "N/u" i..

NUL
The three-letter abbreviation NUL can stand for several things: National Urban League, a non-profit, nonpartisan, civil rights and community-based movement that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination.The ASCII abbreviation for the Null character, a control charact..

Nulato, Alaska
Nulato is a city in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 336. Contents 1 Geography2 Demographics3 History4 External links Geography Nulato is located at [64°43′48″N, 158°6′51″W] (64.730011, -158.114101)&#..

Nula Conwell
Nula Conwell (b. 24 May, 1959) who is a British actress. She has appeared in The Elephant Man and is well known by playing Viv Martella in The Bill from 1984 to 1993. ..

Nulji of Silla
Nulji (reigned 417–458) was the nineteenth king (maripgan) of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. He was the son of King Naemul and Lady Boban, who was the daughter of King Michu. Nulji married the daughter of King Silseong of Silla, who nonetheless exiled Nulji's younger brothers as..

Nulka
The Nulka is an active missile decoy designed and built by an American/Australian collaboration. Deployed on some USN and RAN warships, the Nulka is a rocket propelled, disposable, offboard, active decoy designed to seduce anti-ship missiles away from their targets. The Nulka is a unique hovering r..

Null
Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Null may refer to: KK Null, a Japanese musician.Null (computer), a special value in computer programming. See also nil.Null (SQL), a special value in SQL./dev/null, the null device in Unix-like operating systems.Null (mathematics)..

Null-A Three
Null-A Three is a 1985 science fiction novel by A. E. van Vogt. It incorporates concepts from the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski and refers to non-Aristotelian logic. The novel is a continuation of the adventures of Gilbert Gosseyn from the The World of Null-A (1945) and The Players of Null-..

Null-move heuristic
In computer chess programs, the null-move heuristic is a heuristic technique used to enhance the speed of the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. Contents 1 Rationale2 Implementation3 Problems with the null-move heuristic4 Verified null-move pruning5 See also Rationale Alpha-..

Null-o
Null-O is a 1958 science fiction short story by Philip K. Dick. This rather brief story examines the concept of totally unempathic and 'logical' humans. These beings view individual collections of matter , i.e. any object, as subjective structures and see the true state of reality as an 'undifferen..

Null/Void
Null/Void is a Foetus dual-EP set compiling an aborted pair of EPs originally scheduled for release by Sony/Columbia. Null was briefly distributed in the US as a promotional EP. Unfortunately, the official releases of Null and its planned companion, Void, were halted when Sony severed Thirlwell'..

Nullagine, Western Australia
Location of Nullagine in Western Australia (red) Nullagine, Western Australia is an old golrush town in the Western Australia's northwest region and located on the Nullagine River 296 km south east of Port Hedland and 1186 km north of Perth on the old Great Northern Highway. Its population was..

Nullah
Nullah (Hindi for an arm of the sea, stream or watercourse), a steep narrow valley. Like the wadi of the Arabs, the nullah is characteristic of mountainous or hilly country where there is little rainfall. In the drier parts of India, and in many parts of Australia there are small steep-sided valleys..

Nullar
In grammar, nullar number refers to where nouns take a special form when referring to zero objects. This is similar to how in the English language, one form (the singular) is used for only one object, and another form (the plural) is used for more than one objects. However, in some other languages, ..

Nullarbor National Park
Nullarbor National Park colspan="2" Nearest town/city: Eucla Coordinates: [31°30′38″S, 129°57′01″E] Area: 5883 km² Established: 1979 Visitation: (in [[]]) Managing authorities: Department for Environment and Heritage Official site: [Nullarbor ..

Nullarbor Nymph
The Nullarbor Nymph is a hoax and legend in 1971 and 1972 in Australia which grew from the supposed sighting of a half naked woman on the Nullarbor Plain living amongst kangaroos. Later sightings were claimed and the story was reported around the world, however it was later discovered that it had be..

Nullarbor Plain
NASA - Visible Earth, Nullarbor. The true Nullabor is the light tan semi-circular area adjacent to the coast. Credit Jacques Descloitres. Image acquired by the Terra satellite on August 19, 2002 The Nullarbor Plain is the vast area of flat, almost treeless, arid or semi-arid country immediatel..

Nullarbor Regional Reserve
Nullarbor Regional Reserve colspan="2" Nearest town/city: Ceduna Coordinates: [30°53′27″S, 130°33′11″E] Area: 22,812.46 km² Established: 1989 Visitation: (in [[]]) Managing authorities: Department for Environment and Heritage Official site: [N..

Nulla poena sine lege
The phrase Nulla poena sine lege (Latin: "no penalty without a law") refers to the legal principle that one cannot be penalised for doing something that isn't prohibited by law. This principle is accepted as just and upheld by the penal codes of virtually all modern democracies. It is related to t..

Nullcline
Nullclines are encountered in two-dimensional systems of differential equations [x'=F(x, y)] [y'=G(x, y).] They are curves along which the vector field is either completely horizontal or vertical. Therefore, a nullcline can be the boundary between regions where [x'] o..

Nuller
Nuller is a tool used to block out a strong source of transmission so that fainter nearby signals can be observed. An example of a nuller is being employed on the Keck Interferometer. This causes the light from a star to destructively interfere, effectively cancelling out the star's image. The faint..

Nulle terre sans seigneur
In feudal law, Nulle terre sans seigneur is the principle that one provides services to the sovereign (usually serving in his army) for the right to receive land from the sovereign. In the original French the expression means "No land without a lord" though the legal sense might be more "no propert..

Nullification
The process of nullification may refer to: The legal theory that a U.S. State has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional. The theory is based on a view that the sovereign States formed the Union, and as creators of the compact hold final au..

Nullification Crisis
The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson centered around the question of whether a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress. It was precipitated by protective tariffs, specifically the Tariff of 182..

Nullifiers
Nullifiers were believers in states' rights. They supported the position of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, holding that States could nullify federal laws within their borders. See also List of political parties in the United States ..

Nullifier Party
The Nullifier Party was a short-lived political party based in South Carolina in the 1830's. Started by John C. Calhoun, it was a State's Rights party that supported the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, holding that States could nullify federal laws within their borders. Calhoun outlined the prin..

Nulling interferometry
Nulling interference pattern, Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Nulling interferometry is a type of interferometry in which two or more signals are mixed to produce observational regions in which the incoming signals cancel themselves out. This creates a set of virtual "blind spots" which prevent unw..

Nullisomic
Nullisomic is a genetic condition involving the lack of one of the normal chromosomal pairs for a species (2n-2). ..

Nullity (conflict)
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Nullroute
This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject.Please help recruit one, or improve this page yourself}} if you can. See [discussion page] for details. In computer networking, a nullroute is a network route that goes nowhere. When a network packet is recei..

Nullsoft
Nullsoft is a software house founded in 1997 by Justin Frankel. Its most famous products include the Winamp media player and the SHOUTcast MP3 streaming media server. In recent years, their open source installer system, NSIS, has also risen to popularity as a widely used alternative to commercial pr..

Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS), is an open source, script-driven installation system with minimal overhead backed by Nullsoft, creators of Winamp. NSIS has risen to popularity as a widely used alternative to commercial products like InstallShield. Contents 1 History1.1 POSIX..

Nullsoft Streaming Video
SHOUTcast TV streaming in Winamp 5.2 Nullsoft Streaming Video (NSV) is a media container designed for streaming video content over the internet. NSV was developed by Nullsoft, the makers of Winamp. The NSV format is another example of streaming video formats, offered by various companies and m..

Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali
Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali (Latin, No crime (can be committed), no punishment (can be imposed) without a previous penal law) is a basic maxim in continental European legal thinking, authored by Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach as part of the Bavarian Code in 1813. ..

Null (computer)
In computer programming, null is a special value for a pointer (or other kind of reference) used to signify that the pointer intentionally does not have a target. Such pointer with null as its value is called a null pointer. Often, for example in many implementations of the C language, a binary 0 (z..

Null (EP)
Null is a Foetus EP released in 1995 by Big Cat in the UK. Null acts as a de facto single for "Verklemmt," released on Gash. Promotional copies of Null were distributed by Sony/Columbia in the US, but the EP had no official US release. Null was later rereleased as half of the Null/Void double-C..

Null (mathematics)
In mathematics, null usually means zero. For example, in a vector space the null vector, is the zero vector, in set theory, the null set, is the set with zero elements, and in measure theory, a null set, is a set with zero measure. A mathematical mapping is said to be null potent (or nilpotent) if ..

Null (physics)
Electromagnetism In radio electronics, a null is an area or vector at which the signal from two or more of the antenna elements in an antenna system cancels out almost entirely. This can be an advantage, as nulls in the horizontal plane can be used to protect other transmitters from interference. ..

Null (SQL)
Attributes in tables in SQL database management systems can optionally be designated as NULL. This indicates that the actual value of the column is unknown or not applicable. In SQL DBMSs, the result of testing NULL = NULL is neither TRUE nor FALSE. This is because one unknown value might not be eq..

Null allele
A null allele is an allele with the effect of either absence of the gene product at the molecular level, or the absence of function at the phenotypic level. One example is human blood types A, B and O. The alleles for the A-antigen and B-antigen are codominant, thus they are both expressed if both ..

Null and Void
Null and Void is a comedy television show that runs on CitrusTV, (previously called UUTV and HillTV), the student-run television station at Syracuse University in New York. Preparations began in 1986 and the first episode aired in January 1987, with the last episode produced in 2004. After about a..

Null character
The null character (also null terminator) is a character with the value zero, present in the ASCII and Unicode character sets, and available in nearly all mainstream programming languages. The original meaning of this character was like NOP — when sent to a printer or a terminal, it does nothi..

Null cipher
A null cipher is an ancient form of encryption where the plaintext is mixed with a large amount of non-cipher material. It would today be regarded as a simple form of steganography. Null ciphers can also be used to hide ciphertext, as part of a more complex system. In classical cryptography a nul..

Null Device
Null Device Formation: 1995 Genre: Electronic Website: http://www.nulldevice.com Current Members Vocals / Violins / Synthesizers / Misc Percussion: Eric Oehler Lyrics / Production : Eric Goedken Guitar : Dan Clark Bass : Charles "Chuck4" McKenzie Dumbek / Synthesiz..

Null dust solution
A null dust solution (sometimes called a null fluid) is a Lorentzian manifold in which the Einstein tensor is null. Such a spacetime can be interpreted as an exact solution of Einstein's field equation, in which the only mass-energy present in the spacetime is due to some kind of massless radiation..

Null fill
Null fill is used in radio antenna systems which are located on mountains or tall towers, to prevent too much of the signal from overshooting the intended coverage area. Phasing is used between antenna elements to take power away from the main lobe and electrically direct more of it downward. See ..

Null graph
The null graph or the empty graph is the graph with no points and no lines. The null graph is the initial object in the category of graphs. See also Glossary of graph theory References Harary, F. and Read, R., "Is the Null Graph a Pointless Concept?", Graphs and Combinatorics Conference, George W..

Null httpd
Null httpd is a tiny web server which is designed to be very small, simple, multithreaded, and avaiable for Linux and Windows. Null httpd is free software / open source, and is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Null httpd is now part of the Puppy Linux Main Release distributio..

Null hypothesis
In statistics, a null hypothesis is a hypothesis set up to be nullified or refuted in order to support an alternative hypothesis. When used, the null hypothesis is presumed true until statistical evidence in the form of a hypothesis test indicates otherwise. The use of the null hypothesis is controv..

Null Hypothesis: The Journal of Unlikely Science
Null Hypothesis: The Journal of Unlikely Science is a monthly online satirical science magazine, which casts a wry eye over the world of science and technology. Dubbed "the Private Eye of science" by the Daily Telegraph, it was started in 2004 in Bristol University by three bored postgraduate stud..

Null modem
A null modem adapter Null modem is a communication method to connect two DTEs (computer, terminal, printer etc.) directly using a RS-232 serial cable. The original RS-232 standard only defined the connection of DTEs with DCEs i.e. modems. With a null modem connection the transmit and receive ..

Null morpheme
In morpheme-based morphology, a null morpheme is a morpheme that is realized by a phonologically null affix (an empty string of phonological segments). In simpler terms, a null morpheme is an "invisible" affix. It's also called zero morpheme; the process of adding a null morpheme is called null affi..

Null move
In game theory, a null move is a decision by a player to "pass" (that is, not to make a move) when it is their turn to move. Even though null moves are against the rules of many games, they are often useful to consider when analyzing these games. Examples of this include the analysis of zugzwang in ..

NULL programming language
The NULL programming language is an esoteric programming language designed to be zero-dimensional. Its design was inspired by the two-dimensional Befunge language to contrast with conventional one-dimensional programming languages. A NULL program consists of a single arbitrarily large positive integ..

Null result
Generally, a null result is a result which is null (nothing): that is, the proposed result is absent.[link] In science, it is an experimental outcome which does not show an otherwise expected effect. This does not imply a result of zero or nothing, simply a result that does not support the..

Null set
In measure theory, a null set is a set that is negligible for the purposes of the measure in question. Which sets are null will depend on the measure considered. Thus one may speak of m-null sets for a given measure m. ''The term "null set" is sometimes also used to refer to the empty set; see that..

Null space
In mathematics, the null space (also nullspace) of an operator A is the set of all operands v which solve the equation Av = 0. It is also called the kernel of A. In set-builder notation, [\hbox A = \ \in V : A\mathbf = \mathbf \}.] While the term kernel is used more often, the term nul..

Null vector
The term null vector can have two different meanings: null vector (vector space)null vector (Minkowski space) This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point direct..

Null vector (vector space)
For null vectors as used in special relativity, see Minkowski space#Causal structure. In linear algebra and related areas of mathematics, the null vector or zero vector is the vector (0, 0, …, 0) in Euclidean space, all of whose components are zero. It is usually written 0 or simply 0. For ..

Nul Book Standard
Nul Book Standard is an EP by British band The Futureheads. Their first official release, the EP came out in 2002 on the Project Cosmonaut label. Track listing "Park Inn""Robot""My Rules""Stupid And Shallow" ..

Nušl (crater)
Crater characteristics Coordinates ..

Nu (letter)
For other uses, see Nu. Nu (upper case Ν, lower case ν) is the 13th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 50. Its Latin Alphabet equivalent is N. The word nu is written νῦ in traditional Greek polytonic orthography. In Modern Greek it is sometimes w..

Nußloch
The title of this article contains the character ß. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Nussloch. Nußloch is a municipality in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis (Baden-Württemberg). Nußloch is about 10 km south of Heidelberg along the Bergstraße, literally mountain ro..

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