void🔊

Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.

Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.

Being without; destitute; devoid.

Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.

Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.

Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.

(programming, of a function or method) That does not return a value; being a procedure rather than a function.

(bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.

An empty space; a vacuum.

(astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies.

(materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.

(fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.

(construction) An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.

(Internet, humorous, endearing) A black cat.

An empty place; A location that has nothing useful.

(bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.

To make invalid or worthless.

(medicine) Empty.

To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge.

(obsolete) To withdraw, depart.

(obsolete) To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave.

(now rare, historical) A voidee.