nil meaning

• Noun: nil  nil
  1. A quantity of no importance
     "reduced to nil all the work we had done"
     - nothing, nix, nada, null, aught [archaic], cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught [N. Amer], zero, zilch, zip, zippo [N. Amer]

  Derived forms: nils

  Type of: relative quantity

  Encyclopedia: Nil

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  [Business]
  noun [U]

  nothing; zero:

  Competition has reduced profit margins to nil.

  The company reported nil growth in like-for-like sales on last year.

  The chances of this product passing safety tests are virtually nil.

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  [Electronics]
  1. Colloquialism for negligible.
  2. British expression for zero. Also, nought.
  3. Colloquialism for nothing.
  
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  [Computer]
  /nil/ 1. New Implementation of Lisp. A language intended to be the successor of MacLisp. A large Lisp, implemented mostly in VAX assembly language. A forerunner of Common LISP.
  
  
  
  2. Network Implementation Language. Strom & Yemini, TJWRC, IBM. Implementation of complex networking protocols in a modular fashion.
  
  
  
  3. Empty list or False. In Lisp, the empty list (or "nil list") is used to represent the Boolean value False. This is possible because Lisp is not typed. True is represented by the special atom "t".
  
  4. Spoken in reply to a question, particularly one asked using the "-P" convention it means "No". Most hackers assume this derives simply from LISP, but NIL meaning "no" was well-established among radio hams decades before LISP existed. The historical connection between early hackerdom and the ham radio world was strong enough that this may have been an influence.

• Our immediate capacity for an offensive was nil.
• My knowledge of the subject is practically nil ..
• The energy requirement for hydrolytic reactions is considered nil.
• Theoretically sludge yield is nil for the extended aeration process.
• Before celia met alex she had had no responsibilities, her social experience was nil.
• Home ownership scheme estate granted at nil premium
• Figures adjusted to exclude nil demand notes
• The new machine reduced labour costs to almost nil
• The new machine reduced labor costs to almost nil
• Molecular assessment of nils of dwarfing sterile wheat

• "nil" meaning in Chinese: n. 无，零。 three goals to nil 【运】三比零。 the nil method 【算术】零位法...
• "nil" meaning in Japanese: nil絶無ぜつむ無む
• "nil" meaning in Russian: 1) ничего, ноль (особенно при счете в игре) Ex: the result...
• "nil" meaning in French: n. zéro; rien; nul