Usually means: Discards all data sent to.
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  1. /dev/null: Dictionary.com
  2. Dev Null: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. dev null: Wiktionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. /dev/null: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. /dev/null: Hacking Lexicon
  3. Dev-null, Dev/null, /dev/null, /dev/null/: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dev null)

noun:  Alternative form of /dev/null [(computing) A device file, present in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that discards all data written to it and yields no output.]

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