Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective deprived of legal force.
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- adjective something made
invalid - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
invalidate .
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- adjective deprived of legal force
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Examples
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Woese called the DI's bluff and yes, you do look exactly like crackpots who claim that Einstein invalidated Newtonian physics.
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Turns out that the sublet agreement I had with the guy who's room I was staying in invalidated his lease agreement cause I'm not a Kellogg college student.
Residence woes HayleyM 2008
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Turns out that the sublet agreement I had with the guy who's room I was staying in invalidated his lease agreement cause I'm not a Kellogg college student.
Archive 2008-07-01 HayleyM 2008
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Jim Louderback, who may have been a flashy personality on cable TV but obviously has never been either a lawyer or an engineer, is apparently ignorant of the fact is that the FCC's authority was not "invalidated" - it never had such authority in the first place, and was trying to usurp powers that neither we, the people nor our Congress ever gave it.
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Recent developments have kind of invalidated it as it turns out that there is no single answer to the question.
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Expressions containing this cussed in the next section, we permit an arbitrary use of operator can be "invalidated" (or made nonconstant) if return jump functions, relying on the acyclic call graph later passes reveal that the variable is aliased.
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The FDA also said an agreement it made with Cell Therapeutics that the company's trial would be sufficient for approval was "invalidated" because the trial was stopped early.
Forbes.com: News Matthew Herper 2010
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Expressions containing this cussed in the next section, we permit an arbitrary use of operator can be "invalidated" (or made nonconstant) if return jump functions, relying on the acyclic call graph later passes reveal that the variable is aliased.
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Enforcement of the commitments in the Constitution thus furthers this type of democracy even when the actions of elected officials are invalidated.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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Every prior case concerning waiting periods for abortions had applied strict scrutiny and had invalidated the waiting periods.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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