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/ˈzɪəɹəʊ/ · numeral
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.
Last year, it scored 26 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index which ranks countries on a scale of zero to 100, with zero meaning “highly corrupt” and 100 signifying that a country is “very clean.”
"A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything. Therefore, a zero is something, yet zero." These words of wisdom from the Dalai Lama might not have been in the minds of planners and engineers when designing new railway station platforms, but for several main line stations, zero is indeed something. Eight stations in the UK now operate a Platform 0 - from Cardiff to Kings Cross, Doncaster and Haymarket.
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.
One million has six zeroes.
Use zero when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Zero means The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0..
Common synonyms include 0, cipher, goose egg, love.
Possible antonyms include pole.
The conductor waited until the passenger count was zero.
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