Zero

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Cardinal number 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Related terms 1.5 Adjective 1.5.3 Translations 1.5.4 Synonyms 1.5.5 Antonym 1.6 Transitive verb 1.6.6 Synonyms 1.6.7 Translations 2 Italian 2.7 Noun 3 Portuguese 3.8 Numeral 3.8.8 Pronunciation

English

• Arabic numerals: 0
• Chinese numerals: 零, 〇
  • Next: one, 1

1. The number or numeral 0, which means no quantity or amount at all. When you add zero to any number or subtract zero from any number, the number remains the same.
2. A point on a thermometer or other scale at which numbering or measurement begins. The temperature outside is ten degrees above zero Fahrenheit.
3. Nothing, nought. The business did not lose money, but its profit was zero.
4. (slang) A person of little or no importance.
5. (mathematics) (of a function) A value of the function's independent variable for which the function is equal to zero.

   x² − 1 has zeros at +1 and −1

• (1, 2): cipher, nought
• (3): bugger all, nada, naught, nothing, nought, nowt, sod all, sweet FA, sweet Fanny Adams, zilch, zip
• (4): cipher, nobody
• (5): root

• Arabic: صِفْر (sifrun)
• Breton: mann, zero (1, 2)
• Catalan: zero (1, 2), res (3), zero a l'esquerra (4)
• Chinese: 零
• Corsican: zeru
• Dutch: nul (1, 2, 3, 4), nulpunt (2)
• Ekspreso: sero
• Esperanto: nulo (1, 2, 3), nululo (4)
• Estonian: null
• Finnish: nolla (1, 2, 3, 4)
• French: zéro m (1, 2)
• Frisian: nul
• German: Null f (1, 2), Nichts n (3), Null f (4)
• Hebrew: אפס (e'ffes) (1, 2)
• Hungarian: nulla, zéró
• Indonesian: nol
• Interlingua: zero (1,2,3,4,5); nihil (3)
• Italian: zero m (1, 2) (plural zeri)
• Japanese: 〇 (まる, maru), ○ (まる, maru), 無 (む, mu), 零 (れい, rei), 零点 (れいてん, reiten), ゼロ (zero)
• Korean: 영 [零] (yeong)
• Polish: zero (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Portuguese: zero m (1, 2, 3, 4, 5); nada m (3); zero à esquerda m (4)
• Romanian: zero n (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Slovio: nul
• Spanish: cero m (1, 2, 3), nada f (3), nulo m (3), nula f (3), don nadie m (4), cero a la izquierda m (4)
• Swedish: nolla (1, 2)
• Thai: ศูนย์
• Turkish: sıfır
• Vietnamese: số không (1, 2), zêrô (1, 2)

• Breton: ebet (1)
• Catalan: cap (1), zero (2)
• Dutch: geen (1), geen enkel (1)
• Estonian: null (1, 2), mitte ühtegi (1), mitte midagi (1)
• Finnish: nolla (1, 2), ei lainkaan (1)
• French: aucun m, aucune f (1); zéro (2)
• German: kein (1)
• Hungarian: nulla, egyetlen sem
• Interlingua: zero, nulle, necun
• Italian: non + verb + nessun + singular m noun, non + verb + nessuno + singular m noun beginning with s + consonant, gn, ps, x or z, non + verb + nessuna + singular f noun (1), zero (2)
• Portuguese: zero, nenhum/a
• Romanian: zero n (1, 2), nici un (1)
• Spanish: cero, ningún/a
• Swedish: noll

• (1): no
• (2): naught, nought

• (1): some, at least one

1. To set (a measuring instrument) to zero.

• tare, zeroise, zeroize

• Catalan: posar a zero
• Estonian: nullima
• Finnish: nollata
• French: mettre à zéro
• German: nullen, auf Null stellen
• Hungarian: nulláz
• Interlingua: reducer a zero, adjustar a zero
• Italian: azzerare
• Portuguese: zerar
• Romanian: a reduce la zero
• Spanish: poner a cero
• Swedish: nolla, nollställa