zero
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
zero /ˈzɪərəʊ/
▶cardinal number (pl. zeros) the figure 0; nought; nothing.
■ a point on a scale or instrument from which a positive or negative quantity is reckoned.
■ a temperature of 0°C (32°F), marking the freezing point of water.
■ the lowest possible amount or level; nothing at all.
■ informal a worthless or insignificant person.
▶verb (zeroes, zeroing, zeroed)- 1 adjust (an instrument) to zero.
- 2 set the sights of (a gun) for firing.
■ (zero in on) take aim at or focus attention on.
– origin C17: from Fr. zéro or Ital. zero, via Old Sp. from Arab. ṣifr ‘cipher’.
'zero' also found in these Oxford entries:
absolute temperature
- absolute zero
- and
- bearing
- boson
- cipher
- count
- countdown
- diagonal
- earth
- eigenvalue
- extinction
- goose egg
- Greenwich meridian
- ground zero
- infinitesimal
- Kelvin scale
- love
- minus
- NAND
- natural numbers
- negative
- neutrino
- nil
- nilpotent
- node
- non-negative
- non-trivial
- nor
- not
- null
- O
- or
- plus
- positive
- rank
- residual current
- s
- scratch
- sigma
- significant figure
- singlet
- singular
- size zero
- stationary point
- stopwatch
- strange
- Student's t-test
- sub-zero
- superconductivity
