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"
Used in a Sentence
zero
How to use zero in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for zero.
Editorial note
When I was a child I felt like the zero was at, well, zero.
Examples9
Definitions10
Parts of speech3
Quick take
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"
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of zero gathered in one view.
a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for zero.
noun
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"
noun
a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
noun
the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured
noun
the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing
verb
adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value
verb
adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun); "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards"
adjective
indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score"
See also: 0
adjective
having no measurable or otherwise determinable value; "the goal is zero population growth"
adjective
indicating an initial point or origin
adjective
of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)
Example sentences
When I was a child I felt like the zero was at, well, zero.
But the zero has a dangerous tendency to climb.
There is absolutely zero reason why HR/recruiting people should have final say on a candidate.
Mean income earners, in this scenario, would pay exactly as much taxes as they receive back from the UBI -- so their tax rate would be zero.
What if I'm just getting a little bit less playful every day?With achievement I feel like you have an internal zero point that you measure from.
But the Chrome team is flat-out arrogant here: they want to build a zero-configuration product, and they're quite brazen about it, and Fuck You if you're blind or deaf or whatever.
Instead of focusing how OpenSSL can pull in, let me pick a number, $800k in revenue in the next year, they immediately zero in on $70 of Paypal fees as the organization's leading financial problem.
This mechanism put together gives you: if x < 4 { goto b } else { x = x - 4 ; goto a } also known as "subtract and branch if less than or equal to zero", also known as "an instruction adequate to construct a one-instruction computer".The virtual machine "runs" by generating an unending series of traps: in the "goto a" case, the result of translation is another address generating a trap.
You also know that if you tried to express the concept defined in a previous sentence, but without using names for measures involved, and a notation for a value a measure assigns to some set, the sentence would come out awkward and complicated, because you would have to say that a measure is absolutely continuous with respect to some other measure, if whenever that other measure assigns a zero value to some set, the value assigned to that set by the first measure must be zero as well.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use zero in a sentence?
When I was a child I felt like the zero was at, well, zero.
What does zero mean?
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"
What part of speech is zero?
zero is commonly used as noun, verb, adjective.