empty string

noun

Etymology

From empty (“containing no elements”) + string (“ordered sequence of text characters”).

  1. derived from *strengʰ-✻ — “rope, cord, strand; to tighten”
  2. inherited from *strangiz✻ — “string”
  3. inherited from *strangi✻
  4. inherited from strenġ
  5. inherited from string
  6. compounded as empty string — “empty + string”

Definitions

  1. A string with a length of zero.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for empty string. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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