null set

Mathematical zero membership

A null set is a set containing no elements—the empty set.

In mathematics, it's denoted by ∅ or empty braces .

The concept is fundamental to set theory: every set contains the null set as a subset.

The set of married bachelors is a null set.

philosophical

emptiness

Absence of substance

nonexistence · negation · zero · vacuity · nihilism · blankness · placeholder · starting point · baseline · foundation

mathematical

subset

Collection within collection

complement · intersection · union · disjoint · Venn diagram · finite · infinite · partition · equivalence · injection

Opposites
cardinality/population

null setfull set

All components together

complete set · totality · everything · plenum · teeming

mathematical extremity

null setcontinuum

Uninterrupted, gradual sequence

superset

Family

set, null, empty set

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