zero Synonyms & Antonyms

Zero in a Sentence

The conductor waited until the passenger count was zero.

A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by 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.

One million has six zeroes.

zero-defect

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.

I organized them chronologically with the event in question at "time zero."

The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.

It got down to zero last night.

Set the odometer 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.

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.

Sometimes a difference in intended meaning has only a zero to mark it, in which case the utterance may be ambiguous when context alone does not fully clarify it.

The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.

She showed zero respect.

The stem of "kobieta" with the zero ending is "kobiet".

They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter.

Results were inconsistent because an array wasn’t zeroed during initialization.

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.

The soldier took his gun to the shooting range to zero its aim.

Word Forms & Grammar

zero

zero (countable and uncountable, plural zeros or zeroes)

zero (not comparable)

zero (third-person singular simple present zeroes or zeros, present participle zeroing, simple past and past participle zeroed)

Words That Rhyme With Zero

Origin of Zero

Collectively borrowed from Early Modern Spanish zero, Middle French zero, and (their etymon) Old Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zēphirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing; cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnyá, “void; nothingness”).[1] Doublet of cipher and chiffre. Cognate with Spanish cero and French zéro.