zero

About 33.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 0.
2. numeral 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.

3. noun The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.

   In unary and k-adic notation in general, zero is the empty string.

4. noun The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.

   One million has six zeroes.

5. noun Nothing, or none.

   zero-defect

6. noun The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.

   The electromagnetic field does not drop all of the way to zero before a reversal.

7. noun The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.

   The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.

8. noun 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.

Similar words

zero in ordinal cypher cipher no nada cardinal aught zip nothing

Often followed by

and in to at or for is point of

Word family

0 zeroed zeroes zeroing zeros