Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
non nulle
English translation:
non-zero, nonzero
French term
non nulle
Would this be "non-null"? "non-zero"?
En tant qu’Expéditeur bénéficiant des conditions particulières accordées par l’Exploitant dans la présente Annexe 0, XXX s’engage à fournir à l’Exploitant: une notification ex ante de toute nomination non équilibrée dès qu’une telle position ***non nulle*** est pronostiquée, et une justification ex post de toute nomination non équilibrée prouvant que tous les moyens mis en œuvre pour revenir à une position nulle se sont révélés infructueux.
| 4 -1 | non-zero, nonzero |
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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| 4 +1 | non-null |
Jennifer Levey
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| Null vs zero |
B D Finch
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Proposed translations
Psychologist, Court-certified legal
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English
non-zero, nonzero
Definition of nonzero
1
: being, having, or involving a value other than zero
2
: having phonetic content <nonzero affixes>
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/non-zero
ADJECTIVE.
Having a positive or negative value; not equal to zero.
‘an extremely small but non-zero chance’
A fair number of hits out there for "non-zero position".
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Note added at 15 hrs (2017-02-18 09:43:57 GMT)
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And with "equilibrium" or "balance".
Chile
Human-scale Globalization
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Spanish to English, French to English, English to Spanish, and 2 more.
non-null
equilibrée means the nominations are balanced. They cancel each other out giving a net result of "nothingness", not of "zero".
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Note added at 5 hrs (2017-02-17 23:18:41 GMT)
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IOW, if two forces (nominations, in the ST) are balanced, they "cancel out" or "annul(l)" each other. They don't "a(n)zero" each other.
What's the difference 'twixt "zero" and "null"? Well, for one thing, "zero" can be either positive or negative; "null" is neither.
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Note added at 1 day18 hrs (2017-02-19 12:28:03 GMT)
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For BD Finch (and others...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_zero
To clarify:
zero is a number, and all numbers (including zero) can be positive or negative. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_zero , for example.
null is not a number - it is a state.
Exactly what it represents depends on the circumstances: in electronics, for example, we use "null" when tuning a notch filter to minimise the amplitude of a signal (in the certain knowledge that we cannot reduce it to zero).
In the ST here, it refers to a state of cancellation/equilibrium/balance between two opposing "nominations". I'm not sure what a "nomination" is in this context (and it doesn't really matter for the purpose of this explanation), but there's a good chance that they are not "zero" at the nulle point.
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Louisa Tchaicha
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| neutral |
B D Finch
: Zero is neither positive nor negative. A null value is an unknown (possibly unknowable) value. So, I agree with your suggestion, but not your explanation.
1 day 14 hrs
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Please see note added above.
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Reference comments
Null vs zero
Straight up, NULL is a pointer. It’s a constant, defined in stdio.h.
Whenever you see the NULL constant used, it’s as a pointer value. It can also be used to typecast pointers, such as (int *)NULL. And keep in mind the pointer mantra:
A pointer is a variable that holds a memory location.
Zero is a value. It’s not a memory location, as only pointers can hold memory locations. Further, pointers hold memory locations that reference something. It’s unwise to stuff a pointer with an immediate value just because you want to peek somewhere into memory."
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Note added at 1 day18 hrs (2017-02-19 12:26:01 GMT)
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Also see http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-zero-and...
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Jennifer Levey
: That's not wrong, but it's a very specific context quite a long way OT for asker's question.
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