zero

Meanings

Noun

Adjective

  • no, not any
  • Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
  • Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
  • Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.

Verb

  • To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate instrument scale to valid zero.
  • To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero.
  • To cause or set some value or amount to be zero.
  • To eliminate; to delete; to overwrite with zeros.
  • To disappear

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Origin

  • From French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر ("nothing, cipher"), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य.

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