What does Nil mean?
Definitions for Nil
nɪlnil
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Nil.
Princeton's WordNet
nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zipponoun
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"
GCIDE
Nilnoun
A special value for a variable used in certain computer languages to mean no assigned value, to be distinguished from the value zero.
Wiktionary
nilnoun
No, not any.
nilnoun
Nothing; zero.
Etymology: From nil, a contraction of nihil, nihilum. See nihilism.
Webster Dictionary
Nilverb
will not
Nil
nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping
Etymology: [See Nill, v. t.]
The New Hacker's Dictionary
NIL
No. Used in reply to a question, particularly one asked using the ‘-P’ convention. Most hackers assume this derives simply from LISP terminology for ‘false’ (see also T), but NIL as a negative reply was well-established among radio hams decades before the advent of LISP. The historical connection between early hackerdom and the ham radio world was strong enough that this may have been an influence.
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NIL
What does NIL stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the NIL acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
NIL
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Nil is ranked #156044 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Nil surname appeared 104 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Nil.
50.9% or 53 total occurrences were Asian.
17.3% or 18 total occurrences were White.
16.3% or 17 total occurrences were of two or more races.
9.6% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
5.7% or 6 total occurrences were Black.
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Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Nil' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1327
Anagrams for Nil »
Lin
lin
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Nil in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Nil in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of Nil in a Sentence
Here’s COVID. Here’s NIL, and here’s the transfer portal. Good luck, and that’s kind of where we’re at.
It’s not about Olivia or NIL or social media, it’s just I guess sort of the sense of entitlement that some people feel they can behave a certain way and that what we saw go on out there was a behavior that I didn’t think was appropriate, that’s not normal autograph seeking behavior, you know, engagement with an athlete with fans and that kind of stuff. There was a, there was a mob sense to that scene that that was very disconcerting to me and that’s what I hope is not going to become the norm.
The rules say you’re not supposed to recruit a kid until he gets in the portal, but I think we can agree that there’s a lot of people on our rosters who are getting recruited who are not in the portal yet. And that’s the dangerous part — people recruiting your own players before they even want to get in the portal. And then enticing them with NIL opportunities down the road. I get the idea behind NIL, but a lot of times rules get made, and sometimes we don’t think about the consequences that arise from them down the road.
I have a word "Nil", you have a word "Be". You are jealous of me because the "Nil". I'm sorry for you because you're trying to hold on to the "Be".
The experience in Mexico for a transplant of that complexity is nil.
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