Meaning of zero | Babel Free

Definitions

1. NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 0
2. The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
   countable, uncountable
3. The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0
4. The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
   countable, uncountable
5. The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero
6. Nothing, or none.
   informal, uncountable
7. The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems
8. The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.
   countable, uncountable
9. The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.
   countable, uncountable
10. Nothing, or none
11. A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.
    countable, uncountable
12. The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.
    countable, uncountable
13. A person of little or no importance.
    countable, slang, uncountable
14. A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
    capitalized, countable, uncountable, usually
15. A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value.
    countable, uncountable
16. A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“One million has six zeroes.”

“His idea is to stand billions of ultrafine wire loops around the edge of a silicon chip — hence the name racetrack — and use electric current to slide infinitesimally small magnets up and down along each of the wires to be read and written as digital ones and zeros.”

“Here is the formal definition: an autobiographical number is a number N such that the first digit of N counts how many zeroes are in N, the second digit counts how many ones are in N and so on. In our example, 1210 has 1 zero, 2 ones, 1 two and 0 threes.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“The temperature outside is ten degrees below 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.”

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

“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.”

“They rudely treated him like a zero.”

“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.”

“The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.”

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