About The Word Zero
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What's The Definition Of Zero?
[n] the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale
[n] 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" [n] a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number [adj] indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score" [adj] indicating an initial point or origin [adj] of or relating to the null set (a set with no members) [v] adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun); "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards" [v] to adjust to zero value, of an instrument or device Synonyms | Synonyms for Zero: aught | cardinal | cipher | cypher | goose egg | nada | naught | nil | nix | nothing | nought | null | ordinal | zero in | zero point | zilch | zip Related Terms | Find terms related to Zero: See Also | adjust | bugger all | digit | Fanny Adams | figure | fuck all | nihil | numerical quantity | relative quantity | set | sweet Fanny Adams Zero In Webster's Dictionary \Ze"ro\, n.; pl. {Zeros}or {Zeroes}. [F. z['e]ro, from Ar.
[,c]afrun, [,c]ifrun, empty, a cipher. Cf. {Cipher}.]
1. (Arith.) A cipher; nothing; naught.
2. The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a
thermometer, commences.
Note: Zero in the Centigrade, or Celsius thermometer, and in
the R['e]aumur thermometer, is at the point at which
water congeals. The zero of the Fahrenheit thermometer
is fixed at the point at which the mercury stands when
immersed in a mixture of snow and common salt. In
Wedgwood's pyrometer, the zero corresponds with
1077[deg] on the Fahrenheit scale. See Illust. of
{Thermometer}.
3. Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his
patience had nearly reached zero.
{Absolute zero}. See under {Absolute}.
{Zero method} (Physics), a method of comparing, or measuring,
forces, electric currents, etc., by so opposing them that
the pointer of an indicating apparatus, or the needle of a
galvanometer, remains at, or is brought to, zero, as
contrasted with methods in which the deflection is
observed directly; -- called also {null method}.
{Zero point}, the point indicating zero, or the commencement
of a scale or reckoning.
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