Void

Void may refer to:

Science, engineering, and technology

• Void (astronomy), the spaces between galaxy filaments that contain no galaxies
• Void (composites), a pore that remains unoccupied in a composite material
• Void, synonym for vacuum, a space containing no matter
• Void, a bubble within a mechanical part that causes cavitation when it collapses
• Void, an unwanted air pocket formed during injection moulding
• VoID or Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets, an RDF vocabulary to enable the discovery and use of linked data sets
• Void coefficient, the change in the reactivity of a nuclear reactor when voids form in moderator or coolant fluids
• Void Linux, a Linux distribution
• Void ratio, the volume of void-space to solid space in a material
• Void safety, in object-oriented programming, a guarantee that no object references will have null values
• Void type, in programming languages, a keyword indicating the absence of data
• Void set or empty set, the mathematical set with no elements

Arts, entertainment, and media

Characters

• Void, a malevolent alter ego of superhero Sentry (Robert Reynolds)
• Void (comics), one of the original team of the Wildcats
• Void, the main antagonist in the 2000 video game Sonic Shuffle
• Voids, the villains in the Zbots action-figures franchise
• Void Termina, Void Soul, and Void the main villain(s) in Kirby Star Allies
• Void, a member of the God Hand and one of the main villains in Berserk

Films

• Void (film), a 2013 Lebanese film

Literature

• A Void, a 1969 French novel written without using the letter e by Georges Perec
• Void Trilogy, a science-fiction series by Peter F. Hamilton

Music

• Void (band), a Washington, D.C.-based hardcore punk band
• Void (Intronaut album), 2006
• VOID (NaNa album), a 1999 album by Japanese pop/rock musical duo NaNa
• Void (Vanna album), 2014
• VOID (Video Overview in Deceleration), a 2005 DVD by the Flaming Lips
• ØØ Void, a 2000 album by Sunn O)))
• Voids (album), a 2017 album by Minus the Bear
• Void (EP), an EP by Destroy the Runner

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Void (cards), to have no cards of a particular suit in one's hand during a card game
• Void (fanzine), a major science-fiction fanzine started in the 1950s
• Void Indigo, a comic book series written by Steve Gerber and drawn by Val Mayerik

Religion and philosophy

• The Void (philosophy)
• Void (classical element), English for Kū, one of the five elements in Japanese Buddhism
• Śūnyatā, a Buddhist philosophical concept translated most often as emptiness and sometimes voidness

Other uses

• Void (law), an action, document or transaction that has no legal effect
• Nothing

See also

• The Void (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Void