Void Explained
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 overarching villain(s) in Kirby Star Allies
- Void, a member of the God Hand and one of the main villains in Berserk
Films
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), 1999
- Void (Vanna album), 2014
- Void (War of Ages album), 2019
- 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
- "Void", a song by Allday from Drinking with My Smoking Friends
- "Void", a song by Kilo Kish
- "Void", a song by Lil Nas X from Montero
- "Void" (song), a song by Melanie Martinez from Portals
- "Void", a song by the Neighborhood from The Neighbourhood
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 Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Derry, Northern Ireland
- Void Indigo, a comic book series written by Steve Gerber and drawn by Val Mayerik
Religion and philosophy
- The Void (philosophy)
- Void, 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
- Voiding, the act of urination
- Nothing
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