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 +[[Image:Black Square by Malevich.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Black Square]]'' (1915) by [[Kazimir Malevich]]]]
 +[[Image:Marche Funèbre composée pour les Funérailles d'un grand homme sourd.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man]]'' (1884), a composition by [[Alphonse Allais]]. It consists of nine [[blank]] measures and predates comparable works by [[John Cage]] ("[[4′33″]]") by a considerable margin.]]
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-# An empty space; a [[vacuum]].+'''Void''' is an adjective used to denote containing [[nothing]]; [[empty]]; [[vacant]]; not occupied; not [[fill]]ed;
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 +'''Void''' may also refer to:
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 +*[[Lack]] of matter, or [[vacuum]]
 +*Void, or [[Shunyata]], Buddhist philosophical concept
 +*[[Nothing]], is the absence of everything or a void.
 +==Namesakes==
 +*[[Sir Nose Devoid of Funk]], character of P-Funk mythology
 +*''[[A Void]]'', English translation of Georges Perec's ''La Disparition''
 +*''[[Hands Holding the Void (Invisible Object)]]'' (1934) by Alberto Giacometti
 +*''[[The Specialization of Sensibility in the Raw Material State into Stabilized Pictorial Sensibility, The Void|The Void]]'' (1958) and ''[[Leap Into the Void]]'' (1960) by Yves Klein
 +==Etymology==
 +From Old French ''vuit, voide'' (modern ''vide'').
 +==See also==
 +*[[0 (number)]]
 +*[[Abyss]]
 +*[[Bottomless pit]]
 +*[[Empty space]]
 +*[[Invisible]]
 +*[[Nihilism]]
 +*[[The Void (philosophy)]]
 +*[[Saut dans le vide]] by by Yves Klein
 +*In [[modern sculpture]], void is a sculptural concept
 +*''[[Treatise on the Void]]'' by Blaise Pascal
 +*[[Zero]]
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Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man (1884), a composition by Alphonse Allais. It consists of nine blank measures and predates comparable works by John Cage ("4′33″") by a considerable margin.
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Void is an adjective used to denote containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled;

Void may also refer to:

  • Lack of matter, or vacuum
  • Void, or Shunyata, Buddhist philosophical concept
  • Nothing, is the absence of everything or a void.

Namesakes

Etymology

From Old French vuit, voide (modern vide).

See also




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