[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

zero \ze"ro\, n.; pl. zerosor zeroes. f. z'ero, from ar.
   ,cafrun, ,cifrun, empty, a cipher. cf. cipher.
   1913 webster
   1. arith. a cipher; nothing; naught.
      1913 webster

   2. the point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a
      thermometer, commences.
      1913 webster

   note: zero in the centigrade, or celsius thermometer, and in
         the r'eaumur thermometer, is at the point at which
         water congeals. the zero of the fahrenheit thermometer
         is fixed at the point at which the mercury stands when
         immersed in a mixture of snow and common salt. in
         wedgwood's pyrometer, the zero corresponds with
         1077deg on the fahrenheit scale. see illust. of
         thermometer.
         1913 webster

   3. fig.: the lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his
      patience had nearly reached zero.
      1913 webster

   absolute zero. see under absolute.

   zero method physics, a method of comparing, or measuring,
      forces, electric currents, etc., by so opposing them that
      the pointer of an indicating apparatus, or the needle of a
      galvanometer, remains at, or is brought to, zero, as
      contrasted with methods in which the deflection is
      observed directly; -- called also null method.

   zero point, the point indicating zero, or the commencement
      of a scale or reckoning.
      1913 webster
      1913 webster
see also:
zeros zeroes cipher thermometer absolute zero absolute 
zero method null method zero point 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

zero
     adj 1: indicating the absence of any or all units under
            consideration; "a zero score" syn: 0
     2: indicating an initial point or origin
     3: of or relating to the null set a set with no members
     4: having no measurable or otherwise determinable value; "the
        goal is zero population growth" syn: zeroa
     n 1: 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" syn: nothing,
           nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
           goose egg, naught, zilch, zip
     2: a mathematical element that when added to another number
        yields the same number syn: 0, nought, cipher, cypher
     3: the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale
        syn: zero point
     v 1: adjust an instrument or device to zero value
     2: adjust as by firing under test conditions the zero of a
        gun; "he zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards" syn: zero in
     also: zeroes pl
see also:
0 zeroa nothing nil nix nada 
null aught cipher cypher goose egg 
naught zilch zip nought zero point 
zero in zeroes 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

52 moby thesaurus words for "zero":
   absolute zero, aught, blank, boiling point, cipher, concentrate on,
   dew point, duck, dud, dummy, fix on, focus on, freezing point,
   goose egg, hollow man, home in on, insignificancy, jackstraw,
   lay figure, man of straw, melting point, nada, nadir, naught,
   nebbish, nichts, nihil, nil, nix, no such thing, nobody, nonentity,
   nothing, nothing at all, nothing on earth, nothing whatever,
   nought, null, nullity, pinpoint, puppet, pushover,
   recalescence point, rock bottom, temperature, thing of naught,
   trifle, void, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero in on, zilch

[4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

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.


see also:
scribble 

[5] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

zero
     
         an object oriented extension of z.
     
        "object orientation in z", s. stepney et al eds, springer
        1992.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-03-30
     
     
see also:
object oriented z jargon file 

[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

zero
     
        1.  0, asci character 48.  numeric zero, as
        opposed to the letter "o" the 15th letter of the english
        alphabet.  in their unmodified forms they look a lot alike,
        and various kluges invented to make them visually distinct
        have compounded the confusion.
     
        if your zero is centre-dotted and letter-o is not, or if
        letter-o looks almost rectangular but zero looks more like an
        american football stood on end or the reverse, you're
        probably looking at a modern character display though the
        dotted zero seems to have originated as an option on ibm
        3270 controllers.  if your zero is slashed but letter-o is
        not, you're probably looking at an old-style ascii graphic
        set descended from the default typewheel on the venerable
        asr-33 teletype scandinavians, for whom slashed-o is a
        letter, curse this arrangement.
     
        if letter-o has a slash across it and the zero does not, your
        display is tuned for a very old convention used at ibm and a
        few other early mainframe makers scandinavians curse this
        arrangement even more, because it means two of their letters
        collide.  some burroughs/unisys equipment displays a zero
        with a reversed slash.  and yet another convention common on
        early line printers left zero unornamented but added a tail
        or hook to the letter-o so that it resembled an inverted q or
        cursive capital letter-o.
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-01-24
     
        2. to set to zero.  usually said of small pieces of data, such
        as bits or words especially in the construction "zero out".
     
        3. 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.
     
        1999-02-07
     
     
see also:
asci kluges ibm 3270 ascii asr-33 teletype 
ibm burroughs unisys line printers jargon file 
scribble 

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