zero

Noun

zero (plural zeros or zeroes)

1. The cardinal number that denotes no quantity or amount at all.

   The conductor waited until the passenger count was zero.

2. The numeral 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 rather than the integer zero.

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

   One million has six zeros.

4. A point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.

   The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.

5. A lowest point.

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

6. (informal, uncountable) An amount or degree that is for practical purposes irrelevant.

   He knows zero about humor.

   In the end, all our hard work amounted to zero.

7. (slang) A person of little or no importance.

   They rudely treated him like a zero.

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

   The zeros 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.

9. (mathematics) 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 quotient ring over a maximal ideal is a field with a single zero element.

10. Setting of a firearm. See zero in.

Synonyms:

• (cardinal number denoting nothing): cipher, nil, naught, null
• (numeral zero): cipher
• (digit zero): slashed zero
• (point of origin on a scale): origin, zero point
• (lowest point): nadir
• (irrelevant amount): bugger all, nada, naught, nothing, nought, nowt, null, 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

4 letters in word "zero": E O R Z.

No anagrams for zero found in this word list.

Words found within zero:

er oe or ore re rez roe zo

• Definitions:
• indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score" nothing: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" indicating an initial point or origin a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value of or relating to the null set (a set with no members) the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun); "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards" zero(a): having no measurable or otherwise determinable value; "the goal is zero population growth"
• Zero is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins. It was the third single from their third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness and was a return to the familiar angsty rock of the first single, "Bullet with Butterfly Wings". This style of their music was called by Billy Corgan "Cybermetal". ...
• Zero is a fictional android in the Marvel Comics Universe. He first appeared in New Mutants as a member of the Mutant Liberation Front and was killed in Excalibur #80.
• Zero and 0 may refer to: * 0 (number), a number, glyph, and Hindu-Arabic numeral* The constant function whose value is zero for every element in its domain* Slashed zero glyph used to distinguish the number '0' from the letter 'O' on character displays (see also the letter Ø)* Root (mathematics ...
• Zero was a video game magazine in the UK, published monthly by Dennis Publishing Ltd. between November 1989 and October 1992. (Actual publication dates were in the preceding month, as usual for UK magazines. ...
• Zero|??||alternatively capitalized as ZERO is a video game character and one of the three protagonists in the popular Mega Man X series and Mega Man Zero series of video games. ...
• Zero, (born August 7, 1950) is a Brazilian cartoonist and illustrator journalist.Born in São Paulo, Zero has a singular style to show the Brazilian way of life.Many of his cartoons to go beyond the Brazilian frontier while idea and retract a perfect vision of the actual society. ...
• Zero is an indian rock band that started in the late 90s.
• A zero, in linguistics, is a constituent needed in an analysis but not realized in speech. It also means a lack of an element as opposed to other elements. It is usually written "Ø".
• Zero|?|rei "zero, 0" is a fictional character in the Tenchi Muyo! anime series.
• Zero is a Spanish gay magazine. It is published monthly and features opinion, gay news, articles, interviews and tourism. Some months, the magazines features also the ZDM (fashion), Cuídate (men care), Decora (decoration) and Destino (tourism) supplements.
• In complex analysis, a zero of a holomorphic function f is a complex number a such that f(a) = 0.
• "Zero" is the 14th episode of the first season of the WB original series, Smallville. The episode was written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and was directed by Michael Katleman. It originally aired on March 12, 2002.
• Zero degrees, minutes, and seconds. A perfect zero.
• Green in color. Can be wagered the same way as numbers 1-3
• (ze·ro) (ze´ro) [Ital. “naught”] 1. the absence of all quantity or magnitude; naught. 2. the point on a thermometer scale at which the graduation begins; the ice point on the Celsius and Réaumur scales and 32° below the ice point on the Fahrenheit.
• Zero is the distance that you are sighted in at, and references the flight of the projectile. If you are sighted in at 200 yards, you have a 200 yard zero. Top
• The roulette have a zero on it.
• A zero sphere, which includes no territory, may be designated for an agency, usually a special district. ...
• emission vehicles - vehicles (usually powered by electricity) with no direct emissions from tailpipes or fuel evaporation.ash - incombustible residue left over after incineration or other thermal processes.
• The lowest possible score on a deal on a duplicate board. The term is also applied to a lost board in a team-of-four contest.
• nothing; reset to nothing
• The process of positioning the magnified spread on an amplifier to a desired relative position on the scale. Zero is generally at midpoint of the full scale, but the spread may be positioned anywhere on the scale.
• means to adjust an instrument so that it gives a proper response to a blank calibration standard (eg zero-grade air).
• tests whether its argument, which must be a number, is equal to zero.
• More correctly, "Zero Sight Adjustment." That adjustment of a gun's sights that will place a properly aimed shot at the desired point of impact at some range with a given load, in the absence of wind. The basis from which subsequent sight adjustments are made.
• In shooting, the sight setting at which point of impact and given point of aim coincide at a given range.
• The number (0) on the Roulette wheel.
• For any function f(x), if f(a) = 0, then a is a zero of the function

• zerks ←
• zerk ←
• zeribas ←
• zero
• → zeroed
• → zeroes
• → zeroing