zero
TranslingualEdit
Signal flag for the digit 0 |
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zero
- (international standards) NATO &ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the digit 0.
- Synonym: nadazero (ITU/IMO)
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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Cardinal: zero Ordinal: zeroth |
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
- (Received Pronunciation, General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈzɪə.ɹəʊ/
Audio (AU) (file) - (General American) enPR: zîrʹō('), zēʹrō('), IPA(key): /ˈzɪɚ(ˌ)oʊ/, /ˈzi(ˌ)ɹoʊ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ, -iːɹəʊ
- Hyphenation: ze‧ro
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.
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- → Tokelauan: helo
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zero (countable and uncountable, plural zeros or zeroes)
- 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.
- 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.
- A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value.
- (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
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- (value of a function's variables at zero): pole
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- (value of a function's variables at zero): kernel
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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[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.
- (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 surface form.
- The stem of "kobieta" with the zero ending is "kobiet".
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- (informal: virtually none): no
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zero (third-person singular simple present zeroes or zeros, present participle zeroing, simple past and past participle zeroed)
- (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.
- (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.
- The bill was over $400, but the server zeroed it out as a gesture of gratitude.
- (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.
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BasqueEdit
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Cardinal: zero, huts Ordinal: zerogarren |
EtymologyEdit
From Spanish cero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, ultimately from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, nothing, empty, void”).
PronunciationEdit
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zero
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CatalanEdit
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Cardinal: zero | ||||
Catalan Wikipedia article on 0 |
EtymologyEdit
From Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”).
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zero m or f
- (cardinal number) zero
- (metrology) zero; origin point of a scale
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NounEdit
zero m (plural zeros)
IdoEdit
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Cardinal: zero Ordinal: zeresma Adverbial: zerfoye Multiplier: zeropla Fractional: zerima |
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from English zero, French zéro, Italian zero, Spanish cero.
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zero
- (temperature) zero
- (arithmetic) cipher, nought
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zero
ItalianEdit
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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.
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zero (invariable)
- 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)
- 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
- nil (football)
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zero
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zerō
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zero m
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PolishEdit
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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.
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zero n
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PortugueseEdit
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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
Usage notesEdit
Takes the plural.
NounEdit
zero m (plural zeros)
- zero (name of the digit 0)
- zero (worthless person)
- nothing
- (mathematics) zero (value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero)
- Synonym: raiz
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zero
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zero