Void

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Materialscientist (talk | contribs) at 00:45, 26 October 2016 (Reverted edits by Caspibara (talk) to last version by ClueBot NG). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Void may refer to:

Science and engineering

  • 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 molding
  • Void coefficient, the change in the reactivity of a nuclear reactor when voids form in moderator or coolant fluids
  • 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 type information
  • VoID or Vocabulary of Interlinked Datasets, an RDF vocabulary to enable the discovery and use of linked data sets

Fiction

Music

Other uses

  • Void (cards), to have no cards of a particular suit in one's hand during a card game
  • Void (law), an action, document or transaction that has no legal effect
  • Void[ness], or Śūnyatā, a Buddhist philosophical concept
  • Void, English for , one of the five elements in Japanese Buddhism
  • Void, the main antagonist in the 2000 video game Sonic Shuffle
  • Void, a medical version of urinate
  • Voids, the villains in the Zbots action-figures franchise

See also