zero

Plural: zeroes, zeros

Noun

• a quantity of no importance
• a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
• the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured
• the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing
• The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
• The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
• Nothing, or none.
• The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.
• The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.
• A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.
• The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.
• A person of little or no importance.
• A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
• A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value.
• A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).

Verb

Verb Forms: zeroed, zeroing, zeros

• To aim precisely at a target; to reduce to nothing.
• adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value
• adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun)
  • "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards"
• To set some amount to be zero.
• To disappear or make something disappear.
• To adjust until the variance is reduced to an acceptably low amount.

Adjective Satellite

• indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration
  • "a zero score"
• having no measurable or otherwise determinable value
  • "the goal is zero population growth"
• indicating an initial point or origin

Adjective

• of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)

Num

• The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.

Det

• Synonym of no.

Adj

• Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
• Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
• Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.
• Used in the names of foodstuffs, especially beverages, to indicate a version with no calories

Examples

• A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.
• George parked in space 34, zeroed the trip meter, closed and locked his car, then went back to the guard shack.
• He had to ZERO in on a triple-word score to catch up in Words With Friends.
• He knows zero about humour.
• In the end, all of our hard work amounted to zero.
• In unary and k-adic notation in general, zero is the empty string.
• One million has six zeroes.
• Results were inconsistent because an array wasn’t zeroed during initialization.
• She showed zero respect.
• Since a commutative zero is the inverse of any additive identity, it must be unique when it exists.
• The bill was over $400, but the server zeroed it out as a gesture of gratitude.
• The conductor waited until the passenger count was zero.
• The derivative of a continuous, differentiable function that twice crosses the axis must have a zero.
• The electromagnetic field does not drop all of the way to zero before a reversal.
• The nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function may all lie on the critical line.
• The quotient ring over a maximal ideal is a field with a single zero element.
• The shipment was lost, so they had zero in stock.
• The soldier took his gun to the shooting range to zero its aim.
• The stem of "kobieta" with the zero ending is "kobiet".
• The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.
• The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.
• The zero (of a ring or field) has the property that the product of the zero with any element yields the zero.
• The zero sign in American Sign Language is considered rude in some cultures.
• The zeroes of a polynomial are its roots by the fundamental theorem of algebra.
• They rudely treated him like a zero.
• They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter.
• Write 0.0 to indicate a floating point number rather than the integer zero.
• Zero the fluorometer with the same solvent used in extraction.

Synonyms

0, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, nought, null, zero in, zero point, zilch, zip, zippo, additive identity, bugger all, fuck all, love, nadir, no, no., nobody, nonentity, nowt, origin, slashed zero, sod all, sweet FA, sweet Fanny Adams, tare, value of a function’s variables at zero, zero out

Antonyms

pole

Related Words

Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

Anagrams of zero