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nil N0107700 (nĭl)n. Nothing; zero. [Latin nīl, contraction of nihil; see ne in Indo-European roots.] nil adj.nil (nɪl) nanother word for nothing: used esp in the scoring of certain games[C19: from Latin]nil (nɪl) n. 1. nothing; naught; zero. adj. 2. having no value or existence. [1805–15; < Latin nīl, variant (by apocope) of nīlum, contraction of nihilum nothing =ni (variant of ne not) + hīlum trifle] ThesaurusNoun | 1. | nil - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"goose egg, nada, naught, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo, aught, cypher, cipherrelative quantity - a quantity relative to some purposenihil - (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ); "nihil habet" |
nilnoun1. nothing, love, zero, zip (U.S. slang) The score was 2-nil.2. zero, nothing, none, naught, zilch (slang), zip (U.S. slang) The chances of success are virtually nil.nilnounNo thing; not anything:nothing, null.Informal: zero.Slang: nix, zilch.Archaic: aught.Translationsnil (nil) noun (in scoring) nothing; zero. Leeds United won two-nil / by two goals to nil. 無,零 无,零
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NIL/nil/ 1. New Implementation of Lisp. A language intended tobe the successor of MacLisp. A large Lisp, implementedmostly in VAX assembly language. A forerunner of Common LISP.
["NIL: A Perspective", Jon L. White, MACSYMA Users' Conf Proc,1979].
2. Network Implementation Language. Strom & Yemini, TJWRC,IBM. Implementation of complex networking protocols in amodular fashion.
["NIL: An Integrated Language and System for DistributedProgramming", R. Strom et al, SIGPLAN Notices 18(6):73-82(June 1983)].
3. Empty list or False. In Lisp, the empty list (or "nillist") is used to represent the Boolean value False. Thisis possible because Lisp is not typed. True is representedby the special atom "t".
4. Spoken in reply to a question, particularly one asked usingthe "-P" convention it means "No". Most hackers assume thisderives simply from LISP, but NIL meaning "no" waswell-established among radio hams decades before LISP existed.The historical connection between early hackerdom and the hamradio world was strong enough that this may have been aninfluence.nilenUK
niln. from Latin nihil, nothing or zero. NIL
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NIL➣Notice of Intent to Levy (law) | NIL➣Next in Line | NIL➣Naczelna Izba Lekarska (Polish: National Physicians Council) | NIL➣Nanoparticle Information Library (NIOSH) | NIL➣National Imagery Library | NIL➣Nano Imprint Lithography | NIL➣Network Innovation Laboratories | NIL➣Norton Icon Library | NIL➣not in List | NIL➣Nano-Imprint Lithography | NIL➣Near-Isogenic Line | NIL➣Not in List (Pascal programming language) | NIL➣National Institute for Literacy | NIL➣Netzwerk für Improvisation Leipzig (German: Network for Improvisation Leipzig) | NIL➣National Information Library | NIL➣Nothing in Line | NIL➣National Imagery Library (NIMA) | NIL➣Network Innovation Laboratories (NTT) | NIL➣Nuclear Induced Lightning | NIL➣Network Intelligent Link |
nilenUK
Synonyms for nilnoun nothingSynonymsnoun zeroSynonyms- zero
- nothing
- none
- naught
- zilch
- zip
Synonyms for nilnoun no thing; not anythingSynonyms- nothing
- null
- zero
- nix
- zilch
- aught
Synonyms for nilnoun a quantity of no importanceSynonyms- goose egg
- nada
- naught
- nix
- nothing
- null
- zero
- zilch
- zip
- zippo
- aught
- cypher
- cipher
Related Words- relative quantity
- nihil
- bugger all
- Fanny Adams
- fuck all
- sweet Fanny Adams
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