Phonetics:
Meanings:
noun
Definition: The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
Example: In unary and k-adic notation in general, zero is the empty string.
Definition: The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
Example: One million has six zeroes.
Definition: Nothing, or none.
Example: He knows zero about humour.
Definition: The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.
Example: The electromagnetic field does not drop all of the way to zero before a reversal.
Definition: The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.
Example: The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.
Definition: A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.
Example: The derivative of a continuous, differentiable function that twice crosses the axis must have a zero.
Definition: The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.
Example: Since a commutative zero is the inverse of any additive identity, it must be unique when it exists.
Definition: A person of little or no importance.
Example: They rudely treated him like a zero.
Definition: A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
Definition: A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm.
Definition: A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).
Example: The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.
verb
Definition: To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate instrument scale to valid zero.
Example: Zero the fluorometer with the same solvent used in extraction.
Definition: To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero.
Example: Results were inconsistent because an array wasn’t zeroed during initialization.
Definition: To cause or set some value or amount to be zero.
Example: They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter.
Definition: To eliminate; to delete; to overwrite with zeros.
Definition: To disappear
adjective
Definition: No, not any
Example: She showed zero respect.
Definition: Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
Definition: Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
Definition: Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.
Example: The stem of “kobieta” with the zero ending is “kobiet”.
numeral
Definition: The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.
Example: A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.