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
To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero
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"
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)
The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0
A value of a function's independent variables for which the function is equal to zero