zero

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

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


zero

(metrology) zero; origin point of a scale

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


zero

The conductor waited until the passenger count was zero.

A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.

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

→ Tokelauan: helo

nul

cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing

Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

From Spanish zero (now cero), Middle French zero (modern French zéro), and their etymon 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.


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 numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.

One million has six zeroes.

This effectively allows switching on and off of the flow of current, so it is either conducting or not conducting, creating the binary system of zeroes and ones used in digital computers.

2024 January 4, Matthew Sparkes, “First working graphene semiconductor could lead to faster computers”, in New Scientist, retrieved 2024-01-18:

The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.

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.

(informal, uncountable) Nothing, or none.

The electromagnetic field does not drop all of the way to zero before a reversal.

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.

2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:

The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.

The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.

The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.

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.

As the next example shows, the set of zeros may well have a limit point not belonging to the domain.

2006, Ivan Francis Wilde, Lecture Notes on Complex Analysis, Imperial College Press, page 153:

independent variable
independent variable

(mathematics) A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.

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.

(mathematics, algebra) The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.

They rudely treated him like a zero.

(slang) A person of little or no importance.

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.

1971, Lyndon Johnson, “The New Age of Regionalism”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 361:

(military, usually capitalized) 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.

The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.

(finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).

en-noun

zero (countable and uncountable, plural zeros or zeroes)

pole

antonym(s) of “value of a function's variables at zero”

nulpunkt

value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero


zero

She showed zero respect.

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.

2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport:


zero

(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.

The stem of "kobieta" with the zero ending is "kobiet".

(linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.

(postpositive) Used in the names of foodstuffs, especially beverages, to indicate a version with no calories

nolla

meteorology: of a cloud ceiling: limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less

nolla

meteorology: of horizontal visibility: limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less

nolla-

linguistics: present at an abstract level but not realized in the data


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.

Results were inconsistent because an array wasn’t zeroed during initialization.

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) To set some amount to be zero.

Traffic on the encrypted channels used by senior Iraqi generals had peaked and zeroed, then peaked again, and zeroed again.

1997, Tom Clancy, Executive Orders, page 340:

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,

2001, Mark Pesce, “True Magic”, in James Frenkel, editor, True Names by Vernor Vinge and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier:

If I zeroed Jack, I'd get by So I'd erased him, pretended the last few months had never happened.

2004, Anna Maxted, Being Committed, page 358:

To disappear or make something disappear.

The soldier took his gun to the shooting range to zero its aim.

To adjust until the variance is reduced to an acceptably low amount.

en-verb

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

zeroes (present singular third-person)
zeros (present singular third-person)
zeroing (participle present)
zeroed (participle past)
zeroed (past)

i-sero

to cause or set some value or amount to be zero


zero

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


zero

Borrowed from Dutch zero. Doublet of Safar and sifar.


zero

zero (the value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero)

(rare, of other senses) Synonym of nol (“zero”)


zero

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

1587, “Cap. IIII: Del multiplicare [Chapter 4: About Multiplication]”, in Cosimo Bartoli, transl., Opere di Orontio Fineo Divise in Cinque Parti: Aritmetica, Geometria, Cosmografia & Oriuoli, Venice: Francesco Franceschi Senese, page 10:

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

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


zero

aggiugnendo a’ primi numeri un zero, o due, o tre, secondo che è il bisogno nostro, facciam crescere le centinaia in migliaia

16ᵗʰ c., Vincenzo Borghini, Della moneta fiorentina, Florence: Pietro Gaet. Viviani, published 1755, page 175, collected in Discorsi di monsignore D. Vincenzio Borghini - parte seconda:

By adding a zero to the first numbers – or two, or three, according to our need – we increase the hundreds to thousands


zero

zero (numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero)

zero (point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates)

zero (nothing, or none; lack of something)

(derogatory) zero (person of little or no importance)

zerowy (adjective)
zero (nominative singular)
zera (nominative plural)
zera (genitive singular)
zer (genitive plural)
zeru (dative singular)
zerom (dative plural)
zero (accusative singular)
zera (accusative plural)
zerem (instrumental singular)
zerami (instrumental plural)
zerze (locative singular)
zerach (locative plural)
zero (singular vocative)
zera (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French zéro. First attested in 1781. Doublet of cyfra and szyfr.

ref

Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “zero”, in Słownik języka polskiego


zero

Vieram zero pessoas.

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


zero

(mathematics) zero (value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero)


zero

first-person singular present indicative of zerar


zero

w:International Civil Aviation Organization

radiotelephony clear code
w:NATO phonetic alphabet

(international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 0.