nullification - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From null + -ification.
nullification (countable and uncountable, plural nullifications)
- The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or no legal effect.
- The nullification crisis in U.S. history, confrontation between the state of South Carolina and the federal government in 1832–33 over the former's attempt to declare null and void within the state the federal Tariffs of 1828 and 1832.
- (neologism) Surgical removal of genitals (and sometimes nipples) as a form of body modification; a person who has undergone this surgery is a nullo.
the act of nullifying something
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: анулиране (bg) n (anulirane), обезсилване (bg) n (obezsilvane)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: mitätöinti (fi), nullifikaatio
- French: annulation (fr)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀθέτησις f (athétēsis)
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Italian: nullificazione f
- Japanese: 無効化 (むこうか, mukōka)
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: whakakāhoretanga
- Ottoman Turkish: ابطال (ibtal)
- Portuguese: anulação (pt) f
- Russian: обнуле́ние (ru) n (obnulénije)
- Spanish: please add this translation if you can
- Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
the nullification crisis in U.S. history
nullification f (plural nullifications)
- nullification, in the sense of American constitutional law
- “nullification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.