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.
Report Abuse. Void is the absolute term, while devoid is the relative. To say before the epoch of the universe's begining was void, it is needless then to say it was devoid of life, conciousness, knowledge, and all attributes, and therefore unable to engender them to begin with...