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In fiction:

• Void (comics), character from WildC.A.T.S.
• Void (Mortal Kombat), fictional location or realm in the video game series
• 'Void', one of the minor villains in Sonic the Hedgehog

In non-fiction: Void is a fictional character in the Wildstorm universe. ... The Void is a fictional location in the video game series, Mortal Kombat. ... In the fictional universes of the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games, there are a significant number of villains present. ...

• Touching the Void, a 2003 documentary film about a near-fatal attempt to climb Siula Grande

In literature: Touching the Void is a book by Joe Simpson recounting the true story of Simpsons and Simon Yates disastrous and near fatal attempt to climb the 6,344 metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. ...

• A Void (novel), translation into English of La Disparition
• Void (fanzine), major science fiction fanzine
• Void magazine, web-based literary magazine
• Void Trilogy, science fiction series by British SF writer Peter F. Hamilton

In music: La Disparition (literally, The Disappearance) is a 300 page French lipogrammatic novel, written in 1969 by Georges Perec, entirely without the letter e, following Oulipo constraints. ... Void is a major science fiction fanzine edited by Greg Benford. ... Void Magazine (Void) is a user-generated, ad-supported online periodical that publishes literary work by new and established authors each month. ... The Void Trilogy is a science fiction series by British SF writer Peter F. Hamilton. ...

• ØØ Void, the second album by Sunn O)))
• Void (band), Washington, D.C.-based hardcore punk band on the Dischord label
• VOID (DVD), by the Flaming Lips containing 18 of their music videos

In science: ØØ Void is the second album by Sunn O))). The production is somewhat improved over The Grimmrobe Demos, and it is the first Sunn O))) album to utilize samples. ... Void was a Washington D.C.-based hardcore punk/crossover thrash band. ... VOID (Video Overview In Deceleration) is a 5. ...

• Void (astronomy), the empty spaces between galaxy filaments
• Void coefficient, estimated number in nuclear engineering
• Void ratio, of voids to solids in a mixture, in material sciences

In other fields: In astronomy, voids are the empty spaces between filaments, the largest-scale structures in the Universe that contain very few, or no, galaxies. ... In nuclear engineering, the void coefficient (more properly called void coefficient of reactivity) is a number that can be used to estimate how much the thermal output of a nuclear reactor increases (or decreases, if negative) as voids (steam bubbles) form in the reactor moderator or coolant. ... Void ratio, in materials science, is defined as the volume of voids in a mixture divided by the volume of solids, and so is inversely related to the density. ...

• Void or Shunyata, Buddhist philosophical concept
• Void (cards), to have no cards of a particular suit in one's hand during a card game
• Void (law), to render a check (cheque) or other instrument of no value or utility
• Void type, keyword indicating the absence of type information in many programming languages
• electromigration, void in conductor caused by electromigration

Śūnyatā, शून्यता (Sanskrit), Suññatā (Pāli), stong pa nyid (Tibetan), Kuu, 空 (Japanese) qoɣusun (Mongolian), generally translated into English as Emptiness or Voidness, is a concept of central importance in the teaching of the Buddha, as a direct realization of Sunyata is required to achieve liberation from the cycle of... In card games, to be void in a suit of cards is to not have cards of that suit in ones hand. ... In law, void means of no legal effect. ... The void type, in several programming languages derived from C, is the type for the result of a function that produces no direct result. ... Electromigration is the transport of material caused by the gradual movement of the ions in a conductor due to the momentum transfer between conducting electrons and diffusing metal atoms. ...

See also

• Void, Production of Space, a wikified project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• The Void

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