Because Direct Materials Inventory reports the standard cost of the actual materials on hand, we reduce the account balance by $870 (290 yards used $3 standard cost per yard). After removing 290 yards of materials, the balance in the Direct Materials Inventory account is $2,130 (710 yards x $3 standard cost per yard).
void (plural voids) 1  An empty space; a vacuum. ( 2 astronomy) An extended region of space containing no galaxies. ( 3 materials science) A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice. ( 4 fluid mechanics) A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
Generic top-type pointer void * that points to unspecified data and cannot be dereferenced. Here the meaning of void is different from other meanings of void: universal type vs. no type. In casts such as (void) new Foo(this) to signify that the return value is deliberately thrown away.