Definition of zero in English English dictionary
- Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the data
The stem of kobieta with the zero ending is kobiet.
- Virtually none
She showed zero respect.
- To cause or set some value or amount to be zero
They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter.
- A person of little or no importance
They rudely treated him like a zero.
- The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems
One million has six zeroes.
- The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring
The quotient ring over a maximal ideal is a field with a single zero element.
- Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less
- To eliminate; to delete; to overwrite with zeros
If I zeroed Jack, I'd get by So I'd erased him, pretended the last few months had never happened.
- A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm
- Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less
- The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates
The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.
- To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate instrument scale to valid zero
Zero the fluorometer with the same solvent used in extraction.
- A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945
- A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero
The nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function may all lie on the critical line.
- 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.
- Nothing, or none
In the end, all of our hard work amounted to zero.
- A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest)
The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.
- To disappear
Traffic on the encrypted channels used by senior Iraqi generals had peaked and zeroed, then peaked again, and zeroed again.
- To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero
Results were inconsistent because an array wasn’t zeroed during initialization.
- The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0
A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.
- The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero
The zero sign in American Sign Language is considered rude in some cultures.
- {n} the name of a cypher
- A zero value of a magnitude
- vb To fill or replace with zeros (for example, to zero a specified portion of memory, a field, or some other limited structure)
- of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)
- adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score"
- You can use zero to say that there is none at all of the thing mentioned. This new ministry was being created with zero assets and zero liabilities. in full Mitsubishi A6M Zero Japanese fighter aircraft of World War II. A single-seat, low-wing monoplane made by Mitsubishi, it was introduced in 1940, the 2,600th anniversary of the crowning of Japan's legendary first emperor, Jimmu, and named for the "zero-year" celebration. It had a top speed of 350 mph (565 kph) at nearly 20,000 ft (6,000 m). When it first appeared, it could outmaneuver every plane it encountered; Allied fighters could not defeat it until 1943. Many Zeros became kamikaze craft in the war's closing months. Number and numeral of critical importance in mathematics. Zero is known as the additive identity because adding it to any number does not change the number's identity, or value. The product of zero and any number is zero; for most number systems the converse is true that is, if the product of two numbers is zero, at least one of them must equal zero. The latter property is fundamental to the solution of nearly every problem in mathematics. Division by zero is undefined; efforts to deal with such divisions led to calculus. Various punctuation marks were first used in Mesopotamia beginning about 700 BC to indicate an empty space in positional notation, but never at the end of a number the difference between, say, 78 and 780 had to be understood from the context. Ptolemy first used 0, or the Greek letter omicron " ," as an empty placeholder, including at the end of a number, to express data in the Babylonian sexagesimal system in his astronomical treatise Almagest ( 130 AD). The Hindu-Arabic numerals and treatment of zero as a number developed between the 6th and 9th centuries in India. Zero soon followed trade routes to China, the Islamic world, and Europe. Mitsubishi A6M Zero absolute zero Mostel Zero zero point energy
- Present at an abstract level but not realized in the data
- 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"
- tests whether its argument, which must be a number, is equal to zero
- For all practical purposes irrelevant. Usage: zero + noun
- {i} number 0, quantity of none, null; lowest point possible; (USA & Canada) person who is considered as a total failure
- adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value
- indicating an initial point or origin
- 1) numeral representing the concept of nothing -- " the numeral for zero (0) is used when a section " (9) 2) not any -- "write down each prime factor zero times" (164)
- A value of a function's independent variables for which the function is equal to zero
- vt 1 To set to 0 Usually said of small pieces of data, such as bits or words (esp in the construction `zero out') 2 To erase; to discard all data from Said of disks and directories, where `zeroing' need not involve actually writing zeroes throughout the area being zeroed One may speak of something being `logically zeroed' rather than being `physically zeroed' See {scribble}
- nothing; reset to nothing When every thing was taken away, the number left was zero Before you start the experiment, remember to zero the counters
- the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale
- indicating an initial point or origin of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)
- A plane flown by a Japanese kamikaze in WWII
- the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun); "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards"
- {f} turn to zero, nullify, adjust, regulate
- Zero is the number
- Zero is short for Zero Coupon Bonds As the name implies, zeros pays no interest, so there is nil income tax to pay whilst they are held The investment "rolls up"; i e the interest is included in the capital amount received on transfer or redemption, which is liable to income tax at that time Zero Dividend Preference shares have similar advantages
- Zero is a temperature of 0°. It is freezing point on the Centigrade and Celsius scales, and 32° below freezing point on the Fahrenheit scale. It's a sunny late winter day, just a few degrees above zero That night the mercury fell to thirty degrees below zero
- A zero sphere, which includes no territory, may be designated for an agency, usually a special district A zero sphere assumes that the public service responsibility and function of the agency should ultimately be reassigned to another agency or that the services being provided by the agency should not be a function of a public agency
- zero
- The number of times you've gotten to eat most of the pizza you ordered
- a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
- (1) mechanical zero or electrical zero (2) To place the measure point on a downhole logging tool at the depth datum and adjust the depth-meter to read zero depth
- Style and artistry points earned for a gear-up landing
- The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences
- Ossenglish | adronato
- A cipher; nothing; naught
- If, for a function f(x), the value x 5 a is such that f(a)=0, then a is a zero of the function; where the graph of a function meets the x-axis
- The origin of all coordinates defined in an absolute system Where X, Y and Z axes intersect
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- To reset a scale device so that it registers zero weight before anything is placed upon it to be weighed
- {s} being 0 in number; having no determinable quantity
- Visibility at the city's airport came down to zero, bringing air traffic to a standstill. a scale ranging from zero to seven. = nought
- adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun); "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards"
- indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score"
- As a mathematical idea, the absolute zero obtained by the subtraction of equal quantities (expressed by a - a) In physical measurement, a lower limit or point of origin, as in the zero of a scale or the absolute zero of temperature
- having no measurable or otherwise determinable value; "the goal is zero population growth"
- The low level logic
- the lowest possible score on a deal in a match point contest
- Nothing; nought; an amount or degree that is for practical purposes irrelevant
- A point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates
- zero air
- Purified atmospheric air to contain less than 0.1 ppm total hydrocarbons
- zero conditional
- A structure used to talk about general truths or facts, containing an "if" clause and a main clause
If it rains, the ground gets wet. is an example of a zero conditional sentence.
- zero conditionals
- plural form of zero conditional
- zero coupon
- A non-existent coupon
They decided to issue a note with a zero coupon.
- zero coupon
- A financial security that does not pay interest periodically
Their trademarked financial structure involved issuing several kinds of zero coupons.
- zero coupon bond
- A bond (e.g., corporate debenture or government debt) that has no coupon (i.e., pays no interest), during the life of the issue. Such a bond is initially sold at a deep discount to its face value. The rate of return to the holder is derived from the gradual appreciation as the security moves toward maturity
- zero coupon bonds
- plural form of zero coupon bond
- zero deflection
- The adjustment of a sight, exactly parallel to the axis of the bore of the gun to which it is attached
- zero gravity
- A state/shuttle/simulator which produces weightlessness
- zero gravity
- The state of apparent weightlessness which occurs when in free fall
- zero hour
- The scheduled time for the start of some event, especially a military operation; H-hour
- zero hundred
- The start of the first hour of the day on the 24-hour clock, i.e. 0: 00, military time
- zero in
- To focus one's aim; to zoom in and center on something
When you invoke the VAX C compiler with -p for profiling it generates an assembly-language call to a profiling subroutine for which I substituted my own heap-checker, and that enabled me to zero in on a heap-violation which was caused by an array-out-of-bounds condition.
- zero in on
- To concentrate or focus one's attention on at task
One member of the check fraud team will zero in on the fingerprints.
- zero in on
- To successfully narrow down a search
See if you can zero in on the caller.
- zero in on
- To aim precisely at a target
The pilot zeroed in on the bunker and launched a guided missile.
- zero in on
- To converge on something
At the spring sale, everyone zeroed in on the bargain clothes.
- zero one infinity rule
- The rule that a database (or similar) should allow for either zero, one, or an indefinite number of an entity
- zero point
- The location of the center of a burst of a nuclear weapon at the instant of detonation. The zero point may be in the air, or on or beneath the surface of land or water, depending upon the type of burst, and it is thus to be distinguished from ground zero
- zero points
- plural form of zero point
- zero tensor
- A generalization of the zero vector to tensor space
- zero tensor
- A tensor with all entries equal to zero; where any pattern of covariant and contravariant indices have all components equal to 0
- zero tensors
- plural form of zero tensor
- zero tolerance
- The strict policy of enforcing all the laws of a state, or the rules of an institution, and allowing no toleration or compromise for first-time offenders or petty violations
- zero vector
- A vector whose value in every dimension is zero. i.e. \vec 0 =
- zero-based budget
- A budget developed disregarding the expenses or costs of the prior year, requiring explicit justification for all expenditures
- zero-based budgets
- plural form of zero-based budget
- zero-based indexing
- The method of indexing a vector or any data structure implemented using a vector (commonly a string or a multidimensional array) with non-negative integers; i.e. starting with 0
- zero-coupon note
- A promissory note that pays at maturity the value of the note with no separate interest payments, the effective interest arising from the discounted purchase price
- zero-day
- Pertaining to the day on which software is released
Automatically creating reliable signatures of zero-day exploits is the focus of intense research efforts.
- zero-dimensional
- Of geometrical objects, having zero dimensions; having no extent in any direction
- zero-emission vehicle
- A vehicle that produces only carbon dioxide and water as its emissions and so does not pollute the air
- zero-grade
- In Proto-Indo-European linguistics, a term used to describe an ablaut form of a root characterized by the absence of the basic ablauting vowel phonemes */e/ and */o/
*bʰr̥- is the zero-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰer- meaning ‘to carry, bear’.
- zero-grazed
- Kept in enclosures and never let out to graze
The group also has two zero-grazed cows that provide milk for sale. The group obtained the cows from a church project in 1993.
- zero-knowledge
- Describing situations in which the veracity of a statement may be shown to be true without revealing any other information
- zero-knowledge proof
- An interactive method for one party to prove to another that a (usually mathematical) statement is true, without revealing anything other than the veracity of the statement
- zero-length launching
- A technique in which the first motion of the missile or aircraft removes it from the launcher. Normally, such a launch occurs before the missile fuel or aircraft engine is fired
- zero-order design
- An optimal network design within a computer. It involves choosing an optimal reference system and revolving it around a certain real number
- zero-order hold
- A mathematical model of the practical signal reconstruction done by a conventional digital-to-analog converter, describing the effect of converting a discrete-time signal to a continuous-time signal by holding each sample value for one sample interval
- zero-order holds
- plural form of zero-order hold
- zero-point
- associated with zero on any scale, but particularly with a temperature of absolute zero
- zero-point energies
- plural form of zero-point energy
- zero-point energy
- The lowest possible energy of any quantum mechanical system; a consequence of the uncertainty principle
- zero-point energy
- The energy possessed by something at a temperature of absolute zero
- zero-rated
- subject to no value-added tax when sold (but the supplier can still recover VAT attributable to it)
- zero-sum
- of any system where all gains are offset by exactly equal losses
- zero-sum game
- A game (or a similar economic system) in which the winnings of some players must equal the losses of others
- zero-zero
- Pertaining to the ejection of the occupant of an aircraft from a grounded stationary position (i.e. zero altitude and zero airspeed)
To lessen these forces,as well as achieve zero-zero seat capability—the ability to eject while sitting motionless on the ground—rocket sustainers were added.
- zero in on
- Focus on, concentrate on, home in on, centre on, fix on, pinpoint; zoom in on
- zero sum
- of or pertaining to a situation or a system wherein gain is offset by an equal loss; of or pertaining to a situation whereing the gain (or loss) of a participant is balanced in an accurate manner by the losses or gains of the other participant or participants
- zero sum
- Denoting a game or situation in which whatever is gained by one side is lost by the other
- zero waste
- (Felsefe) Zero waste is a philosophy that aims to guide people in the redesign of their resource-use system with the aim of reducing waste to zero. Put simply zero waste is an idea to extend the current ideas of recycling to form a circular system where as much waste as possible is reused, similar to the way it is in nature. The best example of zero waste practiced by mankind is found in zero waste agriculture where households make optimal use of nature in the from of plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and algae, to produce biodiverse-food, energy and nutrients in a synergistic integrated cycle of profit making processes where the waste of each process becomes the feedstock for another process
- zero-coupon bond
- (Finans) A zero-coupon bond (also called a discount bond or deep discount bond) is a bond bought at a price lower than its face value, with the face value repaid at the time of maturity. It does not make periodic interest payments, or have so-called "coupons," hence the term zero-coupon bond. Investors earn return from the compounded interest all paid at maturity plus the difference between the discounted price of the bond and its par (or redemption) value. Examples of zero-coupon bonds include U.S. Treasury bills, U.S. savings bonds, long-term zero-coupon bonds, and any type of coupon bond that has been stripped of its coupons
- Zero Insertion Force socket
- {i} socket in a chip where there is a lever which allows easy removal of the chip, ZIF socket
- Zero Mostel
- orig. Samuel Joel Mostel born Feb. 28, 1915, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Sept. 8, 1977, Philadelphia, Pa. U.S. actor. He initially worked both on Broadway and in film, but after being blacklisted in Hollywood after 1955, he worked principally in theatre in New York City. He gave acclaimed performances in Ulysses in Nighttown (1958) and Rhinoceros (1961), and he had lead roles in the musicals A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962) and Fiddler on the Roof (1964). His later films included Mel Brooks's The Producers (1968) and The Front (1976), a film about the blacklisting era. Mostel was also a serious painter throughout his life
- Zero-zero
- ejection seat of a pilot (that brings him back safely to a speed and altitude of zero)
- zero article
- {i} linguistics process when an article (the, a, an) is not used
- zero conductor
- {i} system that protects against electric shocks
- zero copula
- Our Living Language A widely known feature of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and some varieties of Southern American English spoken by working-class white people is the absence of a form of be in situations where Standard English would normally require one. In these varieties of English, one can say He working, where Standard English has He is working, meaning "He is working right now." Linguists frequently describe this zero usage as zero copula, although strictly speaking it should be described as zero auxiliary before progressive verb forms, as in He working, and before going to or gon(na), as in He gon do it. This usage is perhaps even more characteristic of AAVE than is invariant habitual be. For some AAVE speakers, zero copula occurs 80 to 90 percent of the time where Standard English requires is or are. No other varieties of American English use zero copula as often.·As with all dialectal features, zero copula use is more systematic than it might at first appear. As the examples above indicate, only present tense inflected forms of be can be deleted (was and were cannot be deleted), and even among present forms, only is and are are deleted; am is frequently contracted but never deleted. Invariant or non-finite forms, such as be in You have to be good can't be deleted, nor can forms that are stressed (He is tall) or that come at the end of a clause (That's what he is). In the late 1960s, linguist William Labov captured most of these generalizations, stating that wherever Standard English can contract is or are, AAVE can delete it. (Note that Standard English does not tolerate contractions in sentences such as That's what he's.) Equally systematic are the quantitative regularities of the zero copula. Throughout the United States, zero copula is less frequent when followed by a noun (He a man) than when followed by an adjective (He happy). It is most frequent when followed by progressives and gon(na), as exemplified above.·This pattern of be-deletion is also found in Gullah and Caribbean Creole varieties of English. Since zero copula is not a feature of the British dialects of English that colonial settlers brought to the United States, it is one of the strongest indicators that the development of AAVE may have been influenced by Caribbean English creoles or that AAVE itself may have evolved from an American Creole-like ancestor. See note at be
- zero coupon bond
- A bond that pays no periodic interest, but is sold at a deep discount from the face value payable at maturity See bond and municipal bond
- zero coupon bond
- A bond issued at a discount which accrues interest that is paid in full at maturity
- zero coupon bond
- A bond which does not pay out interest in cash, but instead re-invests it All bonds once had detachable coupons to be sent along with interest payments; thus zero interest payment came to be called "zero coupon"
- zero coupon bond
- a bond that does not pay interest but is issued at a discount and redeemed at par (full) value
- zero coupon bond
- A bond where no periodic interest payments are made The investor receives one payment - at maturity The maturity value an investor receives is equal to the principal invested plus interest earned, compounded semiannually, at the original interest rate to maturity
- zero coupon bond
- pays no interest, but is sold at a large discount and ultimately redeemed at face value, providing a capital gain
- zero coupon bond
- a bond sold at a deep discount that pays no interest until maturity, at which time the holder receives the bond's face value plus all accrued interest
- zero coupon bond
- A bond which pays no interest but is priced, at issue, at a discount from its redemption price
- zero coupon bond
- Such a debt security pays an investor no interest It is sold at a discount to its face price and matures in one year or longer
- zero coupon bond
- An IOU ("certificate") that sells for much less than it's stated value Though no interest is paid, the debt gradually increases in value until it is paid back at full value
- zero coupon bond
- A bond that is originally issued at a deep discount from its par or face amount and which bears no current interest The bond is bought at a discount price which implies a stated rate of return calculated on the basis of the bond being payable at par at maturity (See Capital Appreciation Bond )
- zero coupon bond
- A bond sold at a deep discount from its face value that makes no periodic payments of interest
- zero coupon bond
- A bond that is purchased at a deep discount and can be redeemed at face value on a specified maturity date
- zero coupon bond
- A bond that pays no interest and is initially sold at a discount
- zero coupon bond
- A bond that is traded at a deep discount because it pays no interest The profit is realized when the bond is redeemed at maturity for full face value
- zero coupon bond
- A bond that pays a coupon Interest is imputed by purchasing the security below face value
- zero coupon bond
- a bond issued at a discount without a coupon
- zero coupon bond
- A bond that pays no interest but is priced, at issue, at a discount from its redemption price
- zero coupon bond
- A bond which pays no periodic interest, but simply returns a given amount of principal at a stated maturity date Zero coupon bonds are sold at a discount from the maturity amount to provide the holder a compound rate of return for the holding period
- zero coupon bond
- Bond that makes no periodic interest payments but instead is sold at a deep discount from its face value
- zero coupon bond
- Bond issued at a discount which accrues interest that is paid in full at maturity
- zero coupon bond
- A bond that pays no interest throughout its life Zero Coupon Bonds (Zeros) sell at a discount to maturity value The discount represents the return on the original investment, if the bond is held to its maturity date The bonds are usually created using interest payment dates of a regular issue
- zero coupon bond
- a bond that is issued at a deep discount from its value at maturity and pays no interest during the life of the bond
- zero coupon bond
- A bond that makes no periodic interest payments, but rather sells at a deep discount from its face value
- zero coupon bond
- A bond that pays no interest The bond is initially offered at a discount to its redemption value
- zero defects
- (Ticaret) A quality philosophy based on the idea that a level of perfect quality, as in zero defects, is achievable and should be a company-wide goal. It emphasizes the examination of all factors that lead to quality problems versus a system that builds in an average or acceptable quality level
- zero dimensional
- {s} having a topological dimension of zero
- zero float
- (Ticaret) A project activity condition of no excess or slack time, where delay in the activity delays the next activity or possibly the entire project
- zero gravity
- The condition of apparent weightlessness occurring when the centrifugal force on a body exactly counterbalances the gravitational attraction on it
- zero hour
- A post-Crisis mini-series that redefined the DC universe again It did an even worse job than Crisis
- zero hour
- The time an attack began, usually in the early morning
- zero hour
- the time set for the start of an action or operation
- zero hour
- hour of fitness, fateful hour, deciding hour
- zero hour
- The scheduled time for the start of an operation or action, especially a combat operation of great size. Also called H-hour. the time when a military operation or an important event is planned to begin
- zero in
- To find the path to the pocket, usually after some poor hits and/or experimentation
- zero in
- adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun); "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards"
- zero in
- Find the right strike spot on a lane
- zero in
- direct onto a point or target, especially by automatic navigational aids
- zero in
- nullify; direct; concentrate
- zero in on
- If you zero in on a problem or subject, you give it your full attention. Many of the other major daily newspapers have not really zeroed in on the problem = home in on
- zero in on
- To zero in on a target means to aim at it or move towards it. He raised the binoculars again and zeroed in on an eleventh-floor room. = home in on
- zero inventory
- (Ticaret) A term initially used to represent the optimum stock level in a just-in-time system and the idea that inventory is a liability instead of an asset
- zero line
- {i} direction toward the center of the target area
- zero offset
- 1 The difference expressed in degrees between true zero and an indication given by a measuring instrument 2 See Zero Suppression
- zero offset
- the difference expressed in degrees between true zero and an indication given by a measuring instrument
- zero offset
- The reading (desired or undesired) that occurs when the input terminals of a meter are shorted
- zero population growth
- The limiting of population increase to the number of live births needed to replace the existing population
- zero probability
- lowest rate of probability, state of having absolutely no chance of happening
- zero sum game
- situation in which winners' gains are offset by losers' losses (ending with a net change of zero)
- zero suppression
- Instron servohydraulic testing systems have a zero suppression feature that shifts the absolute zero of the command waveform to an offset or "apparent" zero It is used to improve resolution when using a waveform that is small in relation to the full scale range in use It is also used when the actuator is offset from its normal or absolute zero to accommodate large grips or long specimens
- zero suppression
- the span of an indicator or chart recorder may be offset from zero (zero suppressed) such that neither limit of the span will be zero For example, a temperature recorder which records a 100 degree span from 400 degrees to 500 degrees is said to have 400 degrees zero suppression
- zero suppression
- concealment of zeroes, hiding of zeroes
- zero suppression
- The removal of, or substitution of blanks for, leading zeros in a number For example, 00057 becomes 57 when using zero suppression
- zero suppression
- The elimination of nonsignificant zeros from a numeral
- zero suppression
- a process used to increase system sensitivity of sensors with a large output offset By suppressing the zero, higher amplification may be applied The bridge circuit is an example
- zero suppression
- The placement of nonsignificant zeros by spaces to the left of a number before output takes place
- zero tolerance
- If a government or organization has a policy of zero tolerance of a particular type of behaviour or activity, they will not tolerate it at all. They have a policy of zero tolerance for sexual harassment. The policy or practice of not tolerating undesirable behavior, such as violence or illegal drug use, especially in the automatic imposition of severe penalties for first offenses. a way of dealing with crime in which every person who breaks the law, even in a very small way, is punished as severely as possible
- zero tolerance
- extreme intolerance of anti-social behavior (usually by an uncompromising application of the law); "he urged zero tolerance for priests who abuse children sexually
- zero(a)
- having no measurable or otherwise determinable value; "the goal is zero population growth
- zero-coupon bond
- the commonest form of zero-coupon security
- zero-coupon security
- a security that makes no interest payments but instead is sold at a deep discount from its face value
- zero-emission
- A zero-emission vehicle does not produce any dangerous gases. zero-emission electric cars
- zero-percent fat
- fat-free
- zero-point energy
- Vibrational energy retained by molecules even at a temperature of absolute zero. Since temperature is a measure of the intensity of molecular motion, molecules would be expected to come to rest at absolute zero. However, if molecular motion were to cease altogether, the atoms would each have a precisely known location and velocity (zero), and the uncertainty principle states that this cannot occur, since precise values of both position and velocity of an object cannot be known simultaneously. Thus, even molecules at absolute zero must have some zero-point energy
- zero-sum game
- a game in which the total of all the gains and losses is zero
- zero-sum game
- If you refer to a situation as a zero-sum game, you mean that if one person gains an advantage from it, someone else involved must suffer an equivalent disadvantage. They believe they're playing a zero-sum game, where both must compete for the same paltry resources. A situation in which a gain by one person or side must be matched by a loss by another person or side: "It's not a zero-sum game in which either youth or pensioners must lose" (Earl W. Foell). a situation in which you receive as much money or advantages as you give away
- zero-tolerance policy
- any policy that allows no exception; "a zero-tolerance policy toward pedophile priests
- Ground Zero
- The site of the former World Trade Center towers in New York City destroyed on 11 September 2001
- absolute zero
- The coldest possible temperature, zero on the Kelvin scale, or approximately −273.15 °C, −459.67 °F
- absolute zero
- A person or thing of absolutely no consequence
- decimal without a zero
- Bijective numeration in base ten
- go from zero to hero
- To become very popular after being unpopular
- go from zero to hero
- To change from negative outcome to positive outcome. To improve one's fortunes significantly
- ground zero
- The location of any disaster
- ground zero
- The point on the land or water surface below, above, or at which an atomic or nuclear bomb detonates
- identically zero
- In mathematics, a function which is equal to the zero function and not merely zero at a particular point in its domain
- myelin protein zero
- the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath
- negative zero
- A signed magnitude representation of zero in which the sign bit indicates a negative number
One must take care in handling negative zero in comparisons.
- net-zero
- Describing a building or system which generates as much energy (though solar and wind generation) as it uses from the electricity network
Heath's home is defined as net-zero, which means it produces as much energy as it consumes throughout the year.
- patient zero
- The initial patient in the population of an epidemiological investigation
- positive zero
- A signed magnitude representation of zero in which the sign bit indicates a positive number
When not otherwise noted, zero will mean positive zero here.
- size zero
- The smallest size of women's clothing
- size zero
- A woman with a very low body mass index, especially such a fashion model
- size-zero
- Attributive form of size zero
size-zero dress.
- sub-zero
- below 0°C; freezing cold
- Wireless Zero Configuration
- (Bilgisayar) Wireless Zero Configuration (WZC), also known as Wireless Auto Configuration, or WLAN AutoConfig is a wireless connection management utility included with Microsoft Windows XP and later operating systems as a service that dynamically selects a wireless network to connect to based on a user's preferences and various default settings
- condition zero
- (Oyunlar) Condition Zero or Counter-Strike (abbreviated CS: CZ or just CZ) is the single player version of the multiplayer game, Counter-Strike. The game was released in 2004 using the GoldSrc Half-Life engine. CS: CZ also features a multiplayer mode, which mostly features updated character models, textures, maps and other graphical tweaks
- t minus zero
- "T minus zero" means "out of time." This comes from a countdown convention used in by both the American military and NASA. Generally, it is used when counting down to a major event that will happen at a specific time. Mathematically, T is time, minus whatever amount of time is left until the event happens. If the News Years ball is dropping in 10 minutes, one could say "The ball is dropping in T minus 10 minutes and counting!" Therefore, "T minus zero" means that there is no time left
I was working on my term paper all night for my morning class, and all the sudden I looked up at the clock and realized I was t minus zero.
- t minus zero
- (deyim) This comes from a countdown convention used in by both the American military and NASA. Generally, it is used when counting down to a major event that will happen at a specific time. Mathematically, T is time, minus whatever amount of time is left until the event happens. If the News Years ball is dropping in 10 minutes, one could say "The ball is dropping in T minus 10 minutes and counting!" Therefore, "T minus zero" means that there is no time left
I was working on my term paper all night for my morning class, and all the sudden I looked up at the clock and realized I was t minus zero.
- Non-Return-to-Zero Inverted
- data storage method in which a 0 bit is represented by a signal change and a 1 bit is represented by no change, NRZI (Computers)
- absolute zero
- The temperature limit at which no further cooling of a substance can occur, and at which the motion of the molecules is at a minimum (or, more accurately, at the minimum allowed by Quantum Mechanics) The energy associated with this minimum motion is called "zero point energy" by physicists