Definition of "zero" in İngilizce

numeral

1. 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.
   • A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.

noun

1. The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number 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.

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

   • One million has six zeroes.

3. (informal, uncountable) Nothing, or none.

   • 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.

4. 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.

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

   • The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.

6. (mathematics) 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.
   • 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.

7. (mathematics, algebra) The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.

   • 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.

8. (slang) A person of little or no importance.

   • They rudely treated him like a zero.

9. (military, usually capitalized) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.