Zero vs. O
Difference Between Zero and O
Zeronoun
The numerical symbol 0; a cipher.
Ointerjunction
Used before the name of or a pronoun referring to a person or thing being formally addressed
"How can I put it to you, O you who prepare to travel with important matters on your mind?" (Jo Durden-Smith).Zeronoun
The identity element for addition.
Ointerjunction
Used to express surprise or strong emotion
"O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches" (Henry David Thoreau).Zeronoun
A cardinal number indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration.
Onoun
The 15th letter of the modern English alphabet.
Zeronoun
An ordinal number indicating an initial point or origin.
Onoun
Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter o.
Zeronoun
An argument at which the value of a function vanishes.
Onoun
The 15th in a series.
Zeronoun
The temperature indicated by the numeral 0 on a thermometer.
Onoun
Something shaped like the letter O.
Zeronoun
A sight setting that enables a firearm to shoot on target.
Onoun
O One of the four major blood groups in the ABO system. Individuals with this blood group have neither A nor B antigens on the surface of their red blood cells, and have both anti-A and anti-B antibodies in their blood serum.
Zeronoun
(Informal) One having no influence or importance; a nonentity
a manager who was a total zero.Onoun
A zero.
Zeronoun
The lowest point
His prospects were approaching zero.Opreposition
Of
lots o' luck.top o' the morning.Zeronoun
(Informal) Nothing; nil
Today I accomplished zero.Onoun
(IRC) Operator
Zeroadjective
Of, relating to, or being zero.
Onoun
Object, see SVO
Zeroadjective
Having no measurable or otherwise determinable value.
Onoun
A zero used in reading out numbers.
It is currently two-o-five in the afternoon (2:05 PM).The first permanent English settlement in America was in Jamestown in sixteen-o-seven (1607).Zeroadjective
(Informal) Not any; no
"The town has ... practically no opportunities for amusement, zero culture" (Robert M. Adams).Oadjective
Over
Zeroadjective
Designating a ceiling not more than 16 meters (52 feet) high.
Onoun
the blood group whose red cells carry neither the A nor B antigens;
people with type O blood are universal donorsZeroadjective
Limited in horizontal visibility to no more than 55 meters (180 feet).
Onoun
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
Zeroadjective
(Linguistics) Of or relating to a morpheme that is expected by an established, regular paradigm but has no spoken or written form. Moose has a zero plural; that is, its plural is moose.
Onoun
the 15th letter of the Roman alphabet
Zeroverb
To adjust (an instrument or a device) to zero value.
Zeronumeral
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.Zeronoun
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.Zeronoun
The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
One million has six zeroes.Zeronoun
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.Zeronoun
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.Zeronoun
The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.
The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.Zeronoun
(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.Zeronoun
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.Zeronoun
(slang) A person of little or no importance.
They rudely treated him like a zero.Zeronoun
(military) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
Zeronoun
A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm.
Zeronoun
(finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).
The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.Zeroadjective
(informal) no, not any
She showed zero respect.Zeroadjective
(meteorology) Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
Zeroadjective
(meteorology) Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
Zeroadjective
(linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the data.
The stem of "kobieta" with the zero ending is "kobiet".Zeroverb
(transitive) To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate instrument scale to valid zero.
Zero the fluorometer with the same solvent used in extraction.Zeroverb
To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero.
Results were inconsistent because an array wasn’t zeroed during initialization.Zeroverb
(transitive) To cause or set some value or amount to be zero.
They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter.Zeroverb
(transitive) To eliminate; to delete; to overwrite with zeros.
Zeroverb
(intransitive) To disappear
Zeronoun
a quantity of no importance;
it looked like nothing I had ever seen beforereduced to nil all the work we had donewe racked up a pathetic goose eggit was all for naughtI didn't hear zilch about itZeronoun
a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
Zeronoun
the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale
Zeroverb
adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value
Zeroverb
adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun);
He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yardsZeroadjective
indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration;
a zero scoreZeroadjective
indicating an initial point or origin
Zeroadjective
of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)
Zeroadjective
having no measurable or otherwise determinable value;
the goal is zero population growth
