zero
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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From French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK, General New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈzɪəɹəʊ/
- (US) enPR: zîrʹō('), zēʹrō('), IPA(key): /ˈzɪɹ(ˌ)oʊ/, /ˈzi(ˌ)ɹoʊ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ, -iːɹəʊ
- Hyphenation: zero
NumeralEdit
zero
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
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NounEdit
zero (countable and uncountable, plural zeroes or zeros)
- 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.
- The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
- One million has six zeroes.
- (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.
- 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.
- The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.
- The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.
- (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.
- (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.
- (slang) A person of little or no importance.
- They rudely treated him like a zero.
- (military) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
- A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm.
- (finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).
- The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.
SynonymsEdit
- (numeric symbol zero): cipher
- (digit zero): slashed zero
- (point of origin on a scale): origin, zero point
- (lowest point): nadir
- (negligible or irrelevant amount): naught, nil, nothing, nought, nowt, null, (informal) bugger all, (informal) fuck all, nada, sod all, sweet FA, sweet Fanny Adams, zilch, zip
- (person of little importance): cipher, nobody, nonentity
- (value of a function’s variables at zero): root
- (identity element of a monoid): additive identity
AntonymsEdit
- (value of a function's variables at zero): pole
HyponymsEdit
HolonymsEdit
- (value of a function's variables at zero): kernel
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
numeric symbol of zero
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digit zero
nothing, or none
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zero value of a magnitude
point of origin on a scale
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value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
identity element of a monoid
person of little importance
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AdjectiveEdit
zero (not comparable)
- (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[1]:
- 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.
- (meteorology) Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
- (meteorology) Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
- (linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the data.
- The stem of "kobieta" with the zero ending is "kobiet".
SynonymsEdit
- (informal: virtually none): no
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
informal: virtually none
meteorology: of a cloud ceiling: limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less
meteorology: of horizontal visibility: limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less
linguistics: present at an abstract level but not realized in the data
VerbEdit
zero (third-person singular simple present zeroes, present participle zeroing, simple past and past participle zeroed)
- (transitive) To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate instrument scale to valid zero.
- Zero the fluorometer with the same solvent used in extraction.
- (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.
- (transitive) To cause or set some value or amount to be zero.
- They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter.
- (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.
- (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.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to set to zero
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to cause or set some value or amount to be zero
BasqueEdit
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| Cardinal : zero | ||
| Basque Wikipedia article on zero | ||
EtymologyEdit
From Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”).
NumeralEdit
zero
CatalanEdit
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| Cardinal : zero | ||
| Catalan Wikipedia article on zero | ||
EtymologyEdit
From Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”).
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
zero m or f
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
zero m (plural zeros)
IdoEdit
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| Cardinal : zero Ordinal : zeresma Adverbial : zerfoye Multiplier : zeropla Fractional : zerima | ||
| Ido Wikipedia article on zero | ||
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English zero, French zéro, Italian zero, Spanish cero.
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
zero
- (temperature) zero
- (arithmetic) cipher, nought
InterlinguaEdit
ItalianEdit
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| Cardinal : zero Ordinal : zeresimo Collective : nessuno | ||
EtymologyEdit
From New Latin zerum, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing”, “cipher”).
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
zero
AdjectiveEdit
zero m or f (invariable)
NounEdit
zero m (plural zeri)
Derived termsEdit
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JapaneseEdit
KurdishEdit
LatinEdit
PolishEdit
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| Cardinal : zero Ordinal : zerowy Collective : zero | ||
EtymologyEdit
From Italian zero, from Italian zefiro, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”).
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
zero n
DeclensionEdit
declension of zero
Coordinate termsEdit
Cardinal numbers from 0 to 49
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- zero in Polish dictionaries at PWN
PortugueseEdit
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| Cardinal : zero | ||
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
zero m pl or f pl
- zero
- Zero pessoas vieram.
- Zero people came.
Usage notesEdit
Takes the plural.
SynonymsEdit
- nenhum (equivalent pronoun)
NounEdit
zero m (plural zeros)
- zero (name of the digit 0)
Related termsEdit
VerbEdit
zero