zero
Translingual
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Signal flag for the digit 0 |
Etymology
From English zero.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈziro], [ˈziˈro][1]
Noun
zero
- (international standards) NATO& ICAO phonetic alphabet code for the digit 0.
- Synonym: nadazero (ITU/IMO)
References
- Annex 10 to the Convention on International Civil Aviation: Aeronautical Telecommunications; Volume II Communication Procedures including those with PANS status, 6th edition, International Civil Aviation Organization, October 2001, retrieved 23 January 2019, page §5.2.1.3, Figure 5–1
English
Etymology
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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.
Pronunciation
- (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
Numeral
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 notes
- In an adjectival sense, used with the plural of a countable noun or with an uncountable noun:
- I have zero dollars and zero food.
Synonyms
- 0
- cipher
- (informal) goose egg
- love (tennis)
- naught (US)
- nought
- nil
- no
- null
- zilch
Derived terms
- non-zero
- ones and zeroes
- zero-g
- zero-length
- zeroth, zeroeth
Descendants
- → Tokelauan: helo
Translations
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See also
- Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages
Noun
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.
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- 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, 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.
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- 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.
Synonyms
- (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
Antonyms
- (value of a function's variables at zero): pole
Hyponyms
- absolute zero
- ground zero
- negative zero
- positive zero
- size zero
Holonyms
- (value of a function's variables at zero): kernel
Derived terms
- aleph-zero
- net-zero, net zero
- non-zero
- sub-zero
- zero-day
- zero-dimensional
- zero-grade
- zeroize, zeroise
- zero-knowledge
- zero method
- zero-pass
- zero-rated
- zero-sum
- zero-sum game
Related terms
- cipher
- decimal without a zero
- go from zero to hero
- zero air
- zero-based budget
- zero coupon bond
- zero deflection
- zero-emission vehicle
- zero gravity
- zero hour
- zero hundred
- zero-knowledge proof
- zero-length launching
- zero one infinity rule
- zero-point energy
- zero vector
Translations
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Adjective
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:
- 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".
Synonyms
- (informal: virtually none): no
Derived terms
- zero growth
- zero tolerance
Translations
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Verb
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.
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- (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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Synonyms
- (to set to zero): tare
- (to cause to be zero): zero out
Derived terms
- zero in
- zero in on
- zero out
Translations
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Basque
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Cardinal: zero, huts Ordinal: zerogarren |
Etymology
From Spanish cero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, ultimately from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, nothing, empty, void”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s̻eɾo/, [s̻e̞.ɾo̞]
Numeral
zero
- zero
- Synonym: huts
Declension
Declension of zero (numeral, ending in vowel) | ||||
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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 reading
- "zero" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
- “zero” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus
Catalan
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Cardinal: zero | ||||
Catalan Wikipedia article on 0 |
Etymology
From Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈzɛ.ɾo/
- (Central) IPA(key): /ˈzɛ.ɾu/
Audio (file)
Numeral
zero m or f
- (cardinal number) zero
- (metrology) zero; origin point of a scale
Derived terms
- hora zero
- zero a l’esquerra
- zero absolut
Noun
zero m (plural zeros)
- zero
Ido
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Cardinal: zero Ordinal: zeresma Adverbial: zerfoye Multiplier: zeropla Fractional: zerima |
Etymology
Borrowed from English zero, French zéro, Italian zero, Spanish cero.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈze.ro/
Numeral
zero
- (temperature) zero
- (arithmetic) cipher, nought
Interlingua
Numeral
zero
- zero
Italian
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Cardinal: zero Ordinal: zeresimo Ordinal abbreviation: 0º Adverbial: zero volte Collective: nessuno | ||||
Italian Wikipedia article on 0 |
Etymology
From New Latin zerum, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing”, “cipher”). Doublet of cifra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): */ˈd͡zɛ.ro/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛro
- Hyphenation: zè‧ro
Numeral
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, 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
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Noun
zero m (plural zeri)
- zero
- 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:
- 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
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- nil (football)
Derived terms
- a zero
- zero assoluto
- zero spaccato
- zero zero sette
- l'ora zero
Japanese
Romanization
zero
- Rōmaji transcription of ゼロ
Latin
Noun
zerō
- dative/ablative singular of zerum
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
zer + -o
Noun
zero m
- blond (male person)
See also
- zerê
Polish
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Cardinal: zero Ordinal: zerowy |
Etymology
Borrowed from French zéro, from Italian zero, from zefiro, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”). Doublet of cyfra and szyfr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzɛ.rɔ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛrɔ
- Syllabification: ze‧ro
Numeral
zero n
- zero
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | zero | zera |
genitive | zera | zer |
dative | zeru | zerom |
accusative | zero | zera |
instrumental | zerem | zerami |
locative | zerze | zerach |
vocative | zero | zera |
Coordinate terms
—0 | —1 | —2 | —3 | —4 | —5 | —6 | —7 | —8 | —9 | |
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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 terms
- od zera
- zero bezwzględne
- zerówka
- wyzerować
- wyzerowywać
- zerować
Further reading
- zero in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- zero in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
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Cardinal: zero Ordinal: zerésimo Ordinal abbreviation: 0.º | ||||
Portuguese Wikipedia article on 0 |
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzɛ.ɾu/
- Rhymes: -ɛɾu
- Hyphenation: ze‧ro
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”). Doublet of cifra.
Numeral
zero m or f
- zero
- Synonym: (equivalent pronoun) nenhum
- Vieram zero pessoas.
- Zero people came.
Usage notes
Takes the plural.
Noun
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
Derived terms
- dar de dez a zero em
- do zero
- estaca zero
- soma zero
- zerar
- zerésima
- zerésimo
- zerinho ou um
- zero absoluto
- zero à esquerda
- zero bala
Verb
zero
- first-person singular present indicative of zerar
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French zéro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈze.ro/
- Hyphenation: ze‧ro
Numeral
zero
- zero