nulls

Eventually they concluded that the Roman letters were so-called nulls, meant to mislead the code breaker, and that the letters represented spaces between words made up of elaborate symbols.

NYT > Home Page By JOHN MARKOFF 2011

That is, they operate at their full licensed power in only a few (or perhaps only one) direction, and have big dents or "nulls" in other directions.

The Moderate Voice 2009

He must be a super, one of the ones that nulls powers.

Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Call’s Review Forum 2009

The car is fully 14 seconds quicker around the Nurburgring than a 997 Carrera, but it gets there with a lot of code-driven handling interventions, such as the active roll-compensation system, which weirdly nulls out almost all body roll as the car corners.

2012 Porsche 911 S: Another Best 911 Ever Dan Neil 2011

The nulls may frequently occur in the enciphered message but they are, of course, immediately disregarded by the receiver.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

They are often extremely difficult to decipher because of the use of multiples and nulls, and the multiplicity of boards.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

For instance, new this year is a crosswind-stabilization feature that nulls out the buffeting of heavy weather.

Olympian Acceleration for the (Very Rich) Masses Dan Neil 2010

"The true power of the ciphers come in, in my opinion, " said the player, -not so much with the multiples and nulls but with the multiplicity of boards.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

What's more, the fact that the monster was a guy in a suit nulls any real tension that may have been felt earlier and makes chumps of the audience.

MIND MELD: Which SciFi Movie Ending Would You Change? 2008

The presence of nulls and multiples in a message, of course, makes it much more difficult to decipher, if one lacks the key.

Cinnamon Roll 2010