Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word EMPTY

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Definitions of EMPTY

1. Devoid of content; containing nothing or nobody; vacant.
2. Having nothing to carry, emptyhanded; unburdened.
3. Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; said of language.
4. Unable to satisfy; hollow; vain.
5. Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial.
6. Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy.
7. (chiefly in the plural) A container, especially a bottle, whose contents have been used up, leaving it empty.
8. (computing, programming, mathematics) Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
9. (obsolete) Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
10. (of some female animals, especially cows and sheep) Not pregnant; not producing offspring when expected to do so during the breeding season.
11. (obsolete, of a plant or tree) Producing nothing; unfruitful.
12. (transitive, ergative) To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of.
13. (intransitive) Of a river, duct, etc: to drain or flow toward an ultimate destination.

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Examples of Using EMPTY in a Sentence

• A recursive definition using set theory is that a binary tree is a tuple (L, S, R), where L and R are binary trees or the empty set and S is a singleton set containing the root.
• For example, the spectrum of an element of a nontrivial complex Banach algebra can never be empty, whereas in a real Banach algebra it could be empty for some elements.
• Equivalently, a convex set or a convex region is a set that intersects every line in a line segment, single point, or the empty set.
• where A, B, and C are nonterminal symbols, the letter a is a terminal symbol (a symbol that represents a constant value), S is the start symbol, and ε denotes the empty string.
• In mathematics, the empty set or void set is the unique set having no elements; its size or cardinality (count of elements in a set) is zero.
• It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to his death, the burial of his body, and the discovery of his empty tomb.
• The resulting video-graphic image has mattes of empty space above and below it; these mattes are part of each frame of the video signal.
• It was invoked to explain the ability of the apparently wave-based light to propagate through empty space (a vacuum), something that waves should not be able to do.
• Given an array of values to be sorted, set up an auxiliary array of initially empty "pigeonholes" (analogous to a pigeon-hole messagebox in an office or desk), one pigeonhole for each key in the range of the keys in the original array.
• A common question asked to test for pessimism is "Is the glass half empty or half full?"; in this situation, a pessimist is said to see the glass as half empty, or in extreme cases completely empty, while an optimist is said to see the glass as half full.
• Players alternate placing stones of their color on empty intersections, with White always assuming the opening move.
• where A, B, S ∈ N are non-terminal symbols, a ∈ Σ is a terminal symbol, and ε denotes the empty string, i.
• When all playable empty squares are filled, the player with more disks showing in their own color wins the game.
• He also owns a cauldron (the coire ansic) which never runs empty, and a magic harp (Uaithne, though this may be the name of the harper), which will not play unless called by its two bynames, and the harp can fly itself to the Dagda when thus beckoned.
• All the children of a node have a common prefix of the string associated with that parent node, and the root is associated with the empty string.
• In the unary system, the number 0 (zero) is represented by the empty string, that is, the absence of a symbol.
• Emperor Justin II, facing an empty treasury, breaks the treaty with the Gepids that has existed since 565.
• Several smaller rivers also empty into the bay: Dog River, Deer River, and Fowl River on the western side of the bay, and Fish River on the eastern side.
• More generally, an open set is a member of a given collection of subsets of a given set, a collection that has the property of containing every union of its members, every finite intersection of its members, the empty set, and the whole set itself.
• February 12 – The army led by Sigismund of Luxembourg is ambushed by Stephen I of Moldavia, on its way back after conquering Neamț Citadel, and the Hungarians must retreat empty handed.
• In particular, for a plane wave travelling through empty space, the wave impedance is equal to the impedance of free space.
• In a union of finitely many sets, the closure of the union and the union of the closures are equal; the union of zero sets is the empty set, and so this statement contains the earlier statement about the closure of the empty set as a special case.
• Realistically coloured with vegetable dyes, it is said to have originated at the Benedictine nunnery of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio, Palermo, known as La Martorana after its foundress, when nuns decorated empty fruit trees with marzipan fruit to impress an archbishop visiting at a season when the trees were not fruiting.
• Any cell card or top card of any cascade may be moved to build on a tableau, or moved to an empty cell, an empty cascade, or its foundation.
• In mathematics, a subset of a topological space is called nowhere dense or rare if its closure has empty interior.

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