Wiktionary

zero

See also: Zero, zéro, zèro, zéró, żero, Żero, and ẓéro

TranslingualEdit

 
Signal flag for the digit 0

EtymologyEdit

From English zero.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

zero

  1. (international standards) NATO &ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the digit 0.
    Synonym: nadazero (ITU/IMO)

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status‎[1], 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, October 2001, retrieved 23 January 2019, page §5.2.1.3, Figure 5–1

EnglishEdit

WOTD – 27 December 2006

EtymologyEdit

English numbers (edit)
00
0 1  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: zero
    Ordinal: zeroth
 
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From French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر‎ (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “void, nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

zero

  1. The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.
    The conductor waited until the passenger count was zero.
    A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.

Usage notesEdit

  • In an adjectival sense, used with the plural of a countable noun or with an uncountable noun:
    I have zero dollars and zero food.

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DescendantsEdit

  • → Tokelauan: helo

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NounEdit

zero (countable and uncountable, plural zeros or zeroes)

  1. The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
    In unary and k-adic notation in general, zero is the empty string.
    Write 0.0 to indicate a floating point number rather than the integer zero.
    The zero sign in American Sign Language is considered rude in some cultures.
  2. The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
    One million has six zeroes.
  3. (informal, uncountable) Nothing, or none.
    The shipment was lost, so they had zero in stock.
    He knows zero about humour.
    In the end, all of our hard work amounted to zero.
  4. The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.
    • 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:
      Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
    The electromagnetic field does not drop all of the way to zero before a reversal.
  5. The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.
    The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.
  6. (mathematics) A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.
    The zeroes of a polynomial are its roots by the fundamental theorem of algebra.
    The derivative of a continuous, differentiable function that twice crosses the axis must have a zero.
    The nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function may all lie on the critical line.
  8. (mathematics, algebra) The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.
    Since a commutative zero is the inverse of any additive identity, it must be unique when it exists.
    The zero (of a ring or field) has the property that the product of the zero with any element yields the zero.
    The quotient ring over a maximal ideal is a field with a single zero element.
  9. (slang) A person of little or no importance.
    They rudely treated him like a zero.
  10. (military) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
    • 1971, Johnson, Lyndon, “The New Age of Regionalism”, in The Vantage Point‎[2], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, LCCN 74-102146, OCLC 1067880747, page 361:
      The visit to Townsville was filled with nostalgia for me. I remembered very well staying there on June 8, 1942. I shared a room with a brave and friendly officer, Colonel Francis Stevens. Early the next morning we flew to Port Moresby in New Guinea, and from there we took off in separate planes. Colonel Stevens never returned from that flight; his plane was shot down by a Japanese Zero.
  11. A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value.
  12. (finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).
    The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.

SynonymsEdit

AntonymsEdit

  • (value of a function's variables at zero): pole

HyponymsEdit

HolonymsEdit

  • (value of a function's variables at zero): kernel

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AdjectiveEdit

zero (not comparable)

  1. (informal) No, not any.
    She showed zero respect.
    • 2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport‎[3]:
      You have to salute Gerrard's bravery in accepting the challenge of trying to turn Rangers around given that he has zero experience in senior management. Immortality beckons if he does it.
  2. (meteorology) Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
  3. (meteorology) Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
  4. (linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.
    The stem of "kobieta" with the zero ending is "kobiet".

SynonymsEdit

  • (informal: virtually none): no

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VerbEdit

zero (third-person singular simple present zeroes or zeros, present participle zeroing, simple past and past participle zeroed)

  1. (transitive) To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate an instrument scale to valid zero.
    Zero the fluorometer with the same solvent used in extraction.
    George parked in space 34, zeroed the trip meter, closed and locked his car, then went back to the guard shack.
  2. (transitive, computing) To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero.
    Results were inconsistent because an array wasn’t zeroed during initialization.
  3. (transitive) To cause or set some value or amount to be zero.
    They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter.
    The bill was over $400, but the server zeroed it out as a gesture of gratitude.
  4. (transitive) To eliminate; to delete; to overwrite with zeros.
    • 2001, Mark Pesce, “True Magic”, in James Frenkel, editor, True Names by Vernor Vinge and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier:
      They discovered the object code for the simulator that was DON, and zeroed it. DON — or his creator — was clever and had planted many copies,
    • 2004, Anna Maxted, Being Committed, page 358:
      If I zeroed Jack, I'd get by So I'd erased him, pretended the last few months had never happened.
  5. (intransitive) To disappear.
    • 1997, Tom Clancy, Executive Orders, page 340:
      Traffic on the encrypted channels used by senior Iraqi generals had peaked and zeroed, then peaked again, and zeroed again.

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BasqueEdit

Basque numbers (edit)
00[a], [b]
0 1  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: zero, huts
    Ordinal: zerogarren

EtymologyEdit

From Spanish cero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, ultimately from Arabic صِفْر‎ (ṣifr, “zero, nothing, empty, void”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /s̻eɾo/, [s̻e̞.ɾo̞]

NumeralEdit

zero

  1. zero
    Synonym: huts

DeclensionEdit

Declension of zero (numeral, ending in vowel)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive zero zeroa zeroak
ergative zerok zeroak zeroek
dative zerori zeroari zeroei
genitive zeroren zeroaren zeroen
comitative zerorekin zeroarekin zeroekin
causative zerorengatik zeroarengatik zeroengatik
benefactive zerorentzat zeroarentzat zeroentzat
instrumental zeroz zeroaz zeroez
inessive anim. zerorengan zeroarengan zeroengan
inanim. zerotan zeroan zeroetan
locative anim. — — —
inanim. zerotako zeroko zeroetako
allative anim. zerorengana zeroarengana zeroengana
inanim. zerotara zerora zeroetara
terminative anim. zerorenganaino zeroarenganaino zeroenganaino
inanim. zerotaraino zeroraino zeroetaraino
directive anim. zerorenganantz zeroarenganantz zeroenganantz
inanim. zerotarantz zerorantz zeroetarantz
destinative anim. zerorenganako zeroarenganako zeroenganako
inanim. zerotarako zerorako zeroetarako
ablative anim. zerorengandik zeroarengandik zeroengandik
inanim. zerotatik zerotik zeroetatik
partitive zerorik — —
prolative zerotzat — —

Further readingEdit

  • "zero" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
  • “zero” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

CatalanEdit

Catalan numbers (edit)
00
0 1  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: zero
Catalan Wikipedia article on 0

EtymologyEdit

From Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر‎ (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”).

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

zero m or f

  1. (cardinal number) zero
  2. (metrology) zero; origin point of a scale

Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

zero m (plural zeros)

  1. zero

IdoEdit

Ido numbers (edit)
00
0 1  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: zero
    Ordinal: zeresma
    Adverbial: zerfoye
    Multiplier: zeropla
    Fractional: zerima

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English zero, French zéro, Italian zero, Spanish cero.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

zero

  1. (temperature) zero
  2. (arithmetic) cipher, nought

InterlinguaEdit

NumeralEdit

zero

  1. zero

ItalianEdit

Italian numbers (edit)
00
0 1  → [a], [b] 10  → 
    Cardinal: zero
    Ordinal: zeresimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 0º
    Adverbial: zero volte
    Collective: nessuno
Italian Wikipedia article on 0

EtymologyEdit

From New Latin zerum, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر‎ (ṣifr, “nothing”, “cipher”). Doublet of cifra.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

zero (invariable)

  1. zero
    • 1587, Cosimo Bartoli, transl., “Cap. IIII: Del multiplicare [Chapter 4: About Multiplication]”, in Opere di Orontio Fineo Divise in Cinque Parti: Aritmetica, Geometria, Cosmografia & Oriuoli‎[4], Venice: Francesco Franceschi Senese, page 10:
      Fatta questa prima mu[l]tiplicatione, va all’altra figura che gl’è à canto del numero Multiplicante che segue, il quale essendo zero, cioè che non significa cosa alcuna, non ti darà ancora cosa alcuna dal suo multiplicarlo
      Having done this first multiplication, go to the figure next to the following multiplying number, which, being zero – that is, it doesn't mean anything – will not give anything when multiplied

NounEdit

zero m (plural zeri)

  1. zero
    • 16th c., Vincenzo Borghini, Della moneta fiorentina‎[5], Florence: Pietro Gaet. Viviani, published 1755, page 175, collected in Discorsi di monsignore D. Vincenzio Borghini - parte seconda:
      aggiugnendo a’ primi numeri un zero, o due, o tre, secondo che è il bisogno nostro, facciam crescere le centinaia in migliaia
      By adding a zero to the first numbers – or two, or three, according to our need – we increase the hundreds to thousands
  2. nil (football)

Derived termsEdit

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

zero

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ゼロ

LatinEdit

NounEdit

zerō

  1. dative/ablative singular of zerum

Northern KurdishEdit

EtymologyEdit

zer +‎ -o

NounEdit

zero m

  1. blond (male person)

See alsoEdit

PolishEdit

 
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Polish numbers (edit)
00
0 1  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: zero
    Ordinal: zerowy

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French zéro, from Italian zero, from zefiro, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر‎ (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”). Doublet of cyfra and szyfr.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

zero n

  1. zero

DeclensionEdit

Declension of zero
singular plural
nominative zero zera
genitive zera zer
dative zeru zerom
accusative zero zera
instrumental zerem zerami
locative zerze zerach
vocative zero zera

Coordinate termsEdit

Polish cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
—0 —1 —2 —3 —4 —5 —6 —7 —8 —9
0— zero jeden dwa trzy cztery pięć sześć siedem osiem dziewięć
1— dziesięć jedenaście dwanaście trzynaście czternaście piętnaście szesnaście siedemnaście osiemnaście dziewiętnaście
2— dwadzieścia dwadzieścia jeden dwadzieścia dwa dwadzieścia trzy dwadzieścia cztery dwadzieścia pięć dwadzieścia sześć dwadzieścia siedem dwadzieścia osiem dwadzieścia dziewięć
3— trzydzieści trzydzieści jeden trzydzieści dwa trzydzieści trzy trzydzieści cztery trzydzieści pięć trzydzieści sześć trzydzieści siedem trzydzieści osiem trzydzieści dziewięć
4— czterdzieści czterdzieści jeden czterdzieści dwa czterdzieści trzy czterdzieści cztery czterdzieści pięć czterdzieści sześć czterdzieści siedem czterdzieści osiem czterdzieści dziewięć
5— pięćdziesiąt pięćdziesiąt jeden pięćdziesiąt dwa pięćdziesiąt trzy pięćdziesiąt cztery pięćdziesiąt pięć pięćdziesiąt sześć pięćdziesiąt siedem pięćdziesiąt osiem pięćdziesiąt dziewięć
6— sześćdziesiąt sześćdziesiąt jeden sześćdziesiąt dwa sześćdziesiąt trzy sześćdziesiąt cztery sześćdziesiąt pięć sześćdziesiąt sześć sześćdziesiąt siedem sześćdziesiąt osiem sześćdziesiąt dziewięć
7— siedemdziesiąt siedemdziesiąt jeden siedemdziesiąt dwa siedemdziesiąt trzy siedemdziesiąt cztery siedemdziesiąt pięć siedemdziesiąt sześć siedemdziesiąt siedem siedemdziesiąt osiem siedemdziesiąt dziewięć
8— osiemdziesiąt osiemdziesiąt jeden osiemdziesiąt dwa osiemdziesiąt trzy osiemdziesiąt cztery osiemdziesiąt pięć osiemdziesiąt sześć osiemdziesiąt siedem osiemdziesiąt osiem osiemdziesiąt dziewięć
9— dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięćdziesiąt jeden dziewięćdziesiąt dwa dziewięćdziesiąt trzy dziewięćdziesiąt cztery dziewięćdziesiąt pięć dziewięćdziesiąt sześć dziewięćdziesiąt siedem dziewięćdziesiąt osiem dziewięćdziesiąt dziewięć

Derived termsEdit

adverb
nouns
verbs

Further readingEdit

  • zero in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • zero in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

Portuguese numbers (edit)
00
0 1  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: zero
    Ordinal: zerésimo
    Ordinal abbreviation: 0.º
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 0

PronunciationEdit

  • Rhymes: -ɛɾu
  • Hyphenation: ze‧ro

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر‎ (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”). Doublet of cifra.

NumeralEdit

zero m or f

  2. zero
    Synonym: (equivalent pronoun) nenhum
    Vieram zero pessoas.
    Zero people came.
Usage notesEdit

Takes the plural.

NounEdit

zero m (plural zeros)

  1. zero (name of the digit 0)
  2. zero (worthless person)
  3. nothing
  4. (mathematics) zero (value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero)
    Synonym: raiz
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

zero

  1. first-person singular present indicative of zerar

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from French zéro.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈze.ro/
  • Hyphenation: ze‧ro

NumeralEdit

zero

  1. zero
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