Standard Lemma guide

zero

adj · det · name · noun · num · verb · 32 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈzɪəɹəʊ/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈzɪɹəʊ/
  • British, Southern, Standard: /ˈzɪːɹəw/
  • General-American: zĭʹrō
  • General-American: zēʹrō
  • General-American: /ˈzɪɹoʊ/
  • General-American: /ˈziɹoʊ/
  • General-American: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian: /ˈzɪə.ɹəʉ/
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • New-Zealand: /ˈzɪə.ɹaʉ/
  • India: /ziː.roː/
  • India: /dʒiː.roː/ Z-J merger
  • /siː.roː/ Tamil Nadu, Kerala, also; Z-S merger
  • rhymes with -ɪəɹəʊ
  • rhymes with -ɪɹəʊ
  • rhymes with -iːɹəʊ
  • CMU ARPABET: Z IH1 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: Z IY1 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Examples

  • The stem of "kobieta" with the zero ending is "kobiet".

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adj

Meaning 4

Used in the names of foodstuffs, especially beverages, to indicate a version with no calories

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable, postpositional

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

det

Meaning 5

Synonym of no.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • She showed zero respect.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: no.

Antonyms: none provided

6

name

Meaning 6

A model of fighter aircraft, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, operated by Imperial Japan during World War II.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The Zero was renowned for its dogfighting capabilities and its range.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • One million has six zeroes.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

Nothing, or none.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, uncountable

Examples

  • The shipment was lost, so they had zero in stock.
  • He knows zero about humour.
  • zero-defect
  • In the end, all of our hard work amounted to zero.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The electromagnetic field does not drop all of the way to zero before a reversal.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: mathematics, sciences

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: algebra, mathematics, sciences

Examples

  • 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.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

A person dismissed as unimportant.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, slang, uncountable

Examples

  • They rudely treated him like a zero.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cipher, nobody, nonentity, loser, absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, bugger, carrion, cockstain, crumb, custron, dandiprat, doink, dirtbag, douchebag, drop kick, fellow, fritlag, fuckbucket, geek, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, gooey, hoon, lidderon, losel, louse, maggot, ne'er-do-well, no-good, no-mark, nonce, nought, nowmun, pelf, pig dog, pile of shit, pissant, punk, puny, quat, ramp, rinky-dink, roly-poly, scullion, shicer, shitheap, slubberdegullion, sparrow-fart, streak of piss, toerag, truant, twerp, wankstain, waste of space, underperson, unworthy, zero

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

A difference that is present at an abstract level, but not realized in the form, that is, superficially (on the surface).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Examples

  • Sometimes a difference in intended meaning has only a zero to mark it, in which case the utterance may be ambiguous when context alone does not fully clarify it.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

noun

Meaning 16

A casual misspelling of Zero ("a fighter aircraft operated by Imperial Japan during World War II").

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, historical, informal, uncountable

Topics: government, military, politics, war

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

17

noun

Meaning 17

A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

noun

Meaning 18

A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: business, finance

Examples

  • The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

noun

Meaning 19

Any specific instance of that model.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • A Zero had been shot down earlier, and we were hoping that the pressure was off, but just then two more Zeroes came in quite low, and we were suddenly in a sticky situation.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

num

Meaning 20

The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The conductor waited until the passenger count was zero.
  • A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

21

verb

Meaning 21

To set some amount to be zero.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter.
  • Results were inconsistent because an array wasn’t zeroed during initialization.
  • Zero the fluorometer with the same solvent used in extraction.
  • George parked in space 34, zeroed the trip meter, closed and locked his car, then went back to the guard shack.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

22

verb

Meaning 22

To disappear or make something disappear.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

23

verb

Meaning 23

To adjust until the variance is reduced to an acceptably low amount.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The soldier took his gun to the shooting range to zero its aim.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

24

adjective

Meaning 24

of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

25

adjective satellite

Meaning 25

indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a zero score

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 0

Antonyms: none provided

26

adjective satellite

Meaning 26

indicating an initial point or origin

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

27

noun

Meaning 27

the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: sight setting

28

noun

Meaning 28

the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: zero point

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: numerical quantity

29

noun

Meaning 29

a quantity of no importance

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • 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 relationships

Synonyms: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zilch, zip, zippo

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: relative quantity

Narrower terms: nihil, bugger all, fuck all, Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams

30

noun

Meaning 30

a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: 0, nought, cipher, cypher

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: digit, figure

31

verb

Meaning 31

adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: zero in

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: adjust, set, correct

32

verb

Meaning 32

adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: adjust, set, correct

History

Etymology

Collectively borrowed from Early Modern Spanish zero, Middle French zero, and (their etymon) Old Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zēphirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing; cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnyá, “void; nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre. Cognate with Spanish cero and French zéro.

Across languages

Translations

558 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: нулев (nulev) — informal: virtually none
  • Catalan: cap — informal: virtually none
  • Cebuano: wala — informal: virtually none
  • Danish: nul — informal: virtually none
  • Danish: ingen — informal: virtually none
  • Finnish: ei mitään — informal: virtually none
  • French: nul — informal: virtually none
  • Italian: nessun — informal: virtually none
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — informal: virtually none
  • Latin: nullus — informal: virtually none
  • Portuguese: nenhum — informal: virtually none
  • Scottish Gaelic: neoni — informal: virtually none
  • Spanish: cero — informal: virtually none
  • Spanish: nulo — informal: virtually none
  • Swahili: ziro — informal: virtually none
  • Swedish: noll — informal: virtually none
  • Swedish: noll- — informal: virtually none
  • Swedish: ingen — informal: virtually none
  • Finnish: nolla — meteorology: of a cloud ceiling: limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — meteorology: of a cloud ceiling: limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less
  • Swahili: ziro — meteorology: of a cloud ceiling: limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less
  • Finnish: nolla — meteorology: of horizontal visibility: limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — meteorology: of horizontal visibility: limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less
  • Swahili: ziro — meteorology: of horizontal visibility: limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less
  • Finnish: nolla- — linguistics: present at an abstract level but not realized in the data
  • Italian: senza — linguistics: present at an abstract level but not realized in the data
  • Japanese: 空 (kū) — linguistics: present at an abstract level but not realized in the data
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — linguistics: present at an abstract level but not realized in the data
  • Polish: zerowy — linguistics: present at an abstract level but not realized in the data
  • Swahili: ziro — linguistics: present at an abstract level but not realized in the data
  • Swedish: noll — linguistics: present at an abstract level but not realized in the data
  • Swedish: noll- — linguistics: present at an abstract level but not realized in the data
  • American Sign Language: see last row of chart — numeric symbol of zero
  • Arabic: صِفْر (ṣifr) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Arabic: ٠ — numeric symbol of zero
  • Arabic: ٠ — numeric symbol of zero
  • Arabic: صفر (ṣefr) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Armenian: զրո (zro) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Catalan: zero — numeric symbol of zero
  • Cebuano: sero — numeric symbol of zero
  • Chinese Mandarin: 零 (líng) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Chinese Mandarin: 〇 (líng) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Danish: nul — numeric symbol of zero
  • Danish: nul- — numeric symbol of zero
  • Esperanto: nulo — numeric symbol of zero
  • Estonian: null — numeric symbol of zero
  • Finnish: nolla — numeric symbol of zero
  • French: zéro — numeric symbol of zero
  • Galician: cero — numeric symbol of zero
  • German: Null — numeric symbol of zero
  • Hindi: सिफ़र (sifar) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Hindi: सिफर (siphar) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Hindi: शून्य (śūnya) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Hindi: ० — numeric symbol of zero
  • Icelandic: núll — numeric symbol of zero
  • Indonesian: nol — numeric symbol of zero
  • Indonesian: kosong — numeric symbol of zero
  • Irish: nialas — numeric symbol of zero
  • Italian: zero — numeric symbol of zero
  • Japanese: 零 (rei) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Japanese: ゼロ (zero) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Japanese: 0 — numeric symbol of zero
  • Japanese: 〇 — numeric symbol of zero
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — numeric symbol of zero
  • Louisiana Creole: zéro — numeric symbol of zero
  • Malay: kosong — numeric symbol of zero
  • Middle English: nought — numeric symbol of zero
  • Norwegian Bokmål: null — numeric symbol of zero
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: null — numeric symbol of zero
  • Polish: zero — numeric symbol of zero
  • Portuguese: zero — numeric symbol of zero
  • Russian: ноль (nolʹ) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Russian: нуль (nulʹ) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Scottish Gaelic: neoni — numeric symbol of zero
  • Sindhi: ٻُڙِي (ḇuṛī) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Slovene: ničla — numeric symbol of zero
  • Spanish: cero — numeric symbol of zero
  • Swedish: nolla — numeric symbol of zero
  • Swedish: noll- — numeric symbol of zero
  • Tatar: ноль (nolʹ) — numeric symbol of zero
  • Tatar: nol — numeric symbol of zero
  • Turkish: sıfır — numeric symbol of zero
  • Zulu: iqanda — numeric symbol of zero
  • Armenian: զրո (zro) — digit zero
  • Catalan: zero — digit zero
  • Cebuano: sero — digit zero
  • Chinese Mandarin: 零 (líng) — digit zero
  • Chinese Mandarin: 〇 (líng) — digit zero
  • Czech: nula — digit zero
  • Danish: nul — digit zero
  • Esperanto: nulo — digit zero
  • Finnish: nolla — digit zero
  • German: Null — digit zero
  • Hindi: शून्य (śūnya) — digit zero
  • Icelandic: núll — digit zero
  • Indonesian: nol — digit zero
  • Italian: zero — digit zero
  • Japanese: 零 (rei) — digit zero
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — digit zero
  • Latvian: nulle — digit zero
  • Norwegian Bokmål: null — digit zero
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: null — digit zero
  • Polish: zero — digit zero
  • Portuguese: zero — digit zero
  • Russian: ноль (nolʹ) — digit zero
  • Scottish Gaelic: neoni — digit zero
  • Sindhi: ٻُڙِي (buri) — digit zero
  • Slovene: ničla — digit zero
  • Spanish: cero — digit zero
  • Swedish: nolla — digit zero
  • Tatar: ноль (nolʹ) — digit zero
  • Tatar: nol — digit zero
  • Zulu: iqanda — digit zero
  • Catalan: res — nothing, or none
  • Cebuano: wala — nothing, or none
  • Cebuano: nulo — nothing, or none
  • Czech: nic — nothing, or none
  • Danish: nul — nothing, or none
  • Danish: ingenting — nothing, or none
  • Dutch: nul — nothing, or none
  • Esperanto: nulo — nothing, or none
  • Finnish: ei mitään — nothing, or none
  • German: Null — nothing, or none
  • Hindi: शून्य (śūnya) — nothing, or none
  • Hindi: सुन्ना (sunnā) — nothing, or none
  • Hindi: बिंदी (bindī) — nothing, or none
  • Hindi: सिफ़र (sifar) — nothing, or none
  • Hindi: सिफर (siphar) — nothing, or none
  • Interlingua: zero — nothing, or none
  • Interlingua: nihil — nothing, or none
  • Italian: zero — nothing, or none
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — nothing, or none
  • Latvian: nulle — nothing, or none
  • Polish: zero — nothing, or none
  • Portuguese: zero — nothing, or none
  • Portuguese: nada — nothing, or none
  • Romanian: zero — nothing, or none
  • Scottish Gaelic: neoni — nothing, or none
  • Serbo-Croatian: нула — nothing, or none
  • Serbo-Croatian: nula — nothing, or none
  • Sindhi: ٻُڙِي (buri) — nothing, or none
  • Spanish: cero — nothing, or none
  • Spanish: nada — nothing, or none
  • Spanish: nulo — nothing, or none
  • Spanish: nula — nothing, or none
  • Swedish: noll — nothing, or none
  • Swedish: ingenting — nothing, or none
  • Swedish: noll och ingenting — nothing, or none
  • Tagalog: wala — nothing, or none
  • Telugu: సున్నా (sunnā) — nothing, or none
  • Telugu: శూన్యం (śūnyaṁ) — nothing, or none
  • Chinese Mandarin: 零 (líng) — zero value of a magnitude
  • Danish: nulpunkt — zero value of a magnitude
  • Finnish: nollapiste — zero value of a magnitude
  • German: Nullpunkt — zero value of a magnitude
  • Hindi: शून्य (śūnya) — zero value of a magnitude
  • Japanese: 零 (rei) — zero value of a magnitude
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — zero value of a magnitude
  • Norwegian: nullpunkt — zero value of a magnitude
  • Polish: zero — zero value of a magnitude
  • Portuguese: zero — zero value of a magnitude
  • Scottish Gaelic: neoni — zero value of a magnitude
  • Sindhi: ٻُڙِي (buri) — zero value of a magnitude
  • Swedish: noll — zero value of a magnitude
  • Breton: mann — point of origin on a scale
  • Breton: zero — point of origin on a scale
  • Catalan: zero — point of origin on a scale
  • Czech: nula — point of origin on a scale
  • Danish: nulpunkt — point of origin on a scale
  • Dutch: nul — point of origin on a scale
  • Esperanto: nulo — point of origin on a scale
  • Finnish: nolla — point of origin on a scale
  • Finnish: nollapiste — point of origin on a scale
  • French: zéro — point of origin on a scale
  • German: Null — point of origin on a scale
  • Hebrew: אפס (éffes) — point of origin on a scale
  • Hindi: शून्य (śūnya) — point of origin on a scale
  • Interlingua: zero — point of origin on a scale
  • Italian: zero — point of origin on a scale
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — point of origin on a scale
  • Latvian: nulle — point of origin on a scale
  • Latvian: nullpunkts — point of origin on a scale
  • Maltese: żero — point of origin on a scale
  • Norwegian: nullpunkt — point of origin on a scale
  • Polish: zero — point of origin on a scale
  • Portuguese: zero — point of origin on a scale
  • Romanian: zero — point of origin on a scale
  • Scottish Gaelic: neoni — point of origin on a scale
  • Serbo-Croatian: нула — point of origin on a scale
  • Serbo-Croatian: nula — point of origin on a scale
  • Sindhi: ٻُڙِي (buri) — point of origin on a scale
  • Slovene: ničla — point of origin on a scale
  • Spanish: cero — point of origin on a scale
  • Swedish: nolla — point of origin on a scale
  • Tatar: ноль (nolʹ) — point of origin on a scale
  • Tatar: nol — point of origin on a scale
  • Vietnamese: số không — point of origin on a scale
  • Vietnamese: zêrô — point of origin on a scale
  • Danish: nulpunkt — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Danish: rod — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Finnish: nollakohta — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • German: Nullstelle — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Hindi: शून्य (śūnya) — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Hungarian: zérushely — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Icelandic: núllstöð — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Interlingua: zero — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Interlingua: nihil — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Japanese: 零点 (reiten) — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Latvian: nulle — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Polish: zero — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Polish: miejsce zerowe — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Portuguese: zero — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Scottish Gaelic: neoni — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Serbo-Croatian: нула — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Serbo-Croatian: nula — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Sindhi: ٻُڙِي (buri) — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Slovene: ničla — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Spanish: cero — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Spanish: raíz — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Swedish: nollställe — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Tatar: ноль (nolʹ) — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Tatar: nol — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Vietnamese: nghiệm — value of a function’s independent variables when the value of the function is zero
  • Finnish: nolla-alkio — identity element of a monoid
  • German: Null — identity element of a monoid
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — identity element of a monoid
  • Polish: zero — identity element of a monoid
  • Scottish Gaelic: neoni — identity element of a monoid
  • Sindhi: ٻُڙِي (buri) — identity element of a monoid
  • Swedish: nollelement — identity element of a monoid
  • Catalan: zero a l'esquerra — person of little importance
  • Cebuano: walay gamit — person of little importance
  • Cebuano: nada — person of little importance
  • Danish: nul — person of little importance
  • Danish: hul i jorden — person of little importance
  • Dutch: nul — person of little importance
  • Esperanto: nulo — person of little importance
  • Esperanto: nululo — person of little importance
  • Finnish: nolla — person of little importance
  • German: Null — person of little importance
  • German: Nichts — person of little importance
  • German: Niemand — person of little importance
  • Hindi: शून्य (śūnya) — person of little importance
  • Hindi: अंडा (aṇḍā) — person of little importance
  • Interlingua: zero — person of little importance
  • Interlingua: nihil — person of little importance
  • Irish: donán — person of little importance
  • Irish: truán — person of little importance
  • Italian: zero assoluto — person of little importance
  • Italian: un uomo da niente — person of little importance
  • Italian: nullità — person of little importance
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — person of little importance
  • Latvian: nulle — person of little importance
  • Norwegian: null — person of little importance
  • Polish: zero — person of little importance
  • Portuguese: zero — person of little importance
  • Portuguese: zero à esquerda — person of little importance
  • Portuguese: joão-ninguém — person of little importance
  • Romanian: zero — person of little importance
  • Scottish Gaelic: neoni — person of little importance
  • Serbo-Croatian: нула — person of little importance
  • Serbo-Croatian: nula — person of little importance
  • Sindhi: ٻُڙِي (buri) — person of little importance
  • Spanish: don nadie — person of little importance
  • Spanish: cero a la izquierda — person of little importance
  • Swedish: nolla — person of little importance
  • Tatar: ноль (nolʹ) — person of little importance
  • Tatar: nol — person of little importance
  • Chinese Mandarin: 調零 /调零 (tiáolíng) — setting of calibrated instruments
  • Finnish: lukitus — setting of calibrated instruments
  • Abkhaz: ануль (anulj) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Afrikaans: nul — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Albanian: zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • American Sign Language: 𝡶𝪜 — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Amharic: ባዶ (bado) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Amharic: ዜሮ (zero) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Arabic: صِفْر (ṣifr) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Arabic: ٠ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Arabic: صفر (ṣifr) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Arabic: صِفِر (ṣifir) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Arabic: صفر (ṣifir) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܨܝܼܦܵܪ (ṣīpar) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Aramaic: ציפר (ṣīpar) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Aramaic: ܨܺܝܦܰܪ (ṣīpar) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Armenian: զրո (zro) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Assamese: সূঞ (xuñ) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Asturian: cero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Azerbaijani: sıfır — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Belarusian: нуль (nulʹ) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Bengali: শূন্য (śunno) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Bengali: ০ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Bhojpuri: शून्य (śūnya) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Breton: mann — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Breton: zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Bulgarian: ну́ла (núla) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Burmese: သုည (su.nya.) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Catalan: zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Cebuano: sero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Cebuano: nulo — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: ⴰⵎⵢⴰ (amya) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Chamorro: tåya’ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Chechen: нул (nul) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Cherokee: ᎧᏂᎩᏛ (kanigidv) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Cherokee: Ꮭ ᎪᎱᏍᏗ (tla gohusdi) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Chinese Cantonese: 零 (ling4) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Chinese: лин (lin) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 零 (lìng) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Gan Chinese: 零 (lin4 / liang4) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Hakka Chinese: 零 (làng) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Chinese: 空 (khòng) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Chinese: 零 (lêng / lân) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Jin Chinese: 零 (ling1) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Chinese Mandarin: 零 (líng) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Chinese Mandarin: 〇 — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Northern Min Chinese: 零 (lâing) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Teochew: 空 (kang3) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Teochew: 零 (lêng5) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Wu Chinese: 零 — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Xiang Chinese: 零 (lin2) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • East Circassian: зыри (zəri) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Corsican: zeru — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Crimean Tatar: sıfır — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Czech: nula — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Danish: nul — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Dhivehi: ސުން (sun̊) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Dinka: acïnic — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Dutch: nul — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Dzongkha: ཀླད་ཀོར (klad kor) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Dzongkha: ཐིག (thig) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Ifè: akpo — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Esperanto: nul — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Estonian: null — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Faroese: null — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Finnish: nolla — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • French: zéro — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • West-Frisian: nul — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Galician: cero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Georgian: ნული (nuli) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • German: null — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • German: Null — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • German: zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • German: Zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Greek: μηδέν (midén) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Greenlandic: noor'lu — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Gujarati: મીંડું (mī̃ḍũ) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Gujarati: ૦ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Gujarati: શૂન્ય (śūnya) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Gun: Ovo (ovô) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Haitian Creole: zewo — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Hausa: sifiri — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Hawaiian: ʻole — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Hebrew: אֶפֶס (éfes) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Hindi: शून्य (śūnya) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Hindi: ० — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Hindi: ज़ीरो (zīro) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Hindi: सिफ़र (sifar) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Hindi: सिफर (siphar) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Hindi: सुन्ना (sunnā) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Hungarian: nulla — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Hungarian: zéró — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Icelandic: núll — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Ido: zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Igala: òfo — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Igbo: éfu — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Indonesian: nol — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Interlingua: zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Inuktitut: ᔨᕈ (yiro) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Irish: neamhní — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Irish: nialas — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Irish: náid — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Italian: zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Izon: yéfàá — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Izon: zírò — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Japanese: 零 (rei) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Japanese: ゼロ (zero) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Japanese: 〇 — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Kannada: ಸೊನ್ನೆ (sonne) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Kannada: ಶೂನ್ಯ (śūnya) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Karachay-Balkar: ноль (nolʹ) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Karelian: nol’a — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Kashmiri: صِفَر (sifar) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Kazakh: нөл (nöl) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Khmer: សូន្យ (soun) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Khmer: ០ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Korean: 영 (yeong) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Korean: 령 (ryeong) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Korean: 공 (gong) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Korean: 제로 (jero) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Krio: ziro — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Kyrgyz: нөль (nöl) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Ladino: nula — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Ladino: zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Lakota: tákuni — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Lao: ສູນ (sūn) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Lao: ໐ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Latin: zerum — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Latin: nihilum — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Latin: zephirum — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Latin: cifra — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Latin: nūlla — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Latvian: nulle — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Ligurian: zêro — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Lithuanian: nulis — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Louisiana Creole: zéro — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • : ᦉᦳᧃ (ṡun) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • : ᦟᦲᧃᧉ (liin2) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Luxembourgish: Null — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Macedonian: ну́ла (núla) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Malagasy: aotra — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Brunei Malay: kusung — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Malay: کوسوڠ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Malay: صفر — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Malay: نول — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Malay: نيهيل — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Malay: kosong — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Malay: sifar — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Malay: nol — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Malay: nihil — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Malayalam: പൂജ്യം (pūjyaṁ) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Maltese: żero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Manx: neunhee — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Māori: kore — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Marathi: शून्य (śūnya) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Mon: သုည — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Mongolian: тэг (teg) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Mongolian: ᠐ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Mongolian: бинт (bint) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Khiamniungan Naga: wà — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Navajo: ádin — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Navajo: názbąs — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Nepali: शून्य (śūnya) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Norwegian Bokmål: null — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: null — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Occitan: zèro — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Odia: ଶୁନ୍ୟ (śunya) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Ojibwe: waawiyebii'igan — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Ojibwe: gaawiin gegoo — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Pali: suñña — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Pashto: صفر (sefər) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Persian: صِفْر (sifr) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Persian: ۰ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Dari: صِفْر (sifr) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Dari: ۰ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Iranian Persian: صِفْر (sefr) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Iranian Persian: ۰ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Polish: zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Portuguese: zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Punjabi: ਸਿਫ਼ਰ (sifar) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Punjabi: ੦ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Punjabi: ਜ਼ੀਰੋ (zīro) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Quechua: ch'usaq — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Rapa Nui: kokore — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Romagnol: ẓéro — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Romanian: zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Russian: нуль (nulʹ) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Russian: ноль (nolʹ) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Russian: зеро́ (zeró) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Northern Sami: nolla — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Samoan: selo — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Sanskrit: शून्य (śūnya) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Sanskrit: ० — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Scottish Gaelic: neoni — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Serbo-Croatian: нула — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Serbo-Croatian: nula — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Shan: သူၼ် (sǔun) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Silesian: nul — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Silesian: zero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Sindhi: ٻُڙِي (buri) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Sinhalese: ශුන්යය (śunyaya) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Slovak: nula — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Slovene: nìč — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Somali: eber — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Spanish: cero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Swahili: sifuri — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Swedish: noll — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Tagalog: awan — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Tagalog: sero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Tajik: сифр (sifr) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Tamil: சுழியம் (cuḻiyam) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Tamil: சுழி (cuḻi) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Tamil: பூச்சியம் (pūcciyam) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Tamil: ௦ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Tatar: нуль (nulʹ) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Telugu: సున్న (sunna) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Telugu: శూన్యము (śūnyamu) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Telugu: ౦ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Thai: ศูนย์ (sǔun) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Thai: ๐ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Tibetan: ཀླད་ཀོར (klad kor) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Tigrinya: ባዶ (bado) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Tigrinya: ዜሮ (zero) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Tongan: noa — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Turkish: sıfır — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Ottoman Turkish: صفر (sıfır) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Turkmen: nol — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Ukrainian: нуль (nulʹ) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Ukrainian: зеро́ (zeró) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Unami: ku kèku — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Urdu: صِفْر (sifr) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Urdu: ۰ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Uyghur: نۆل (nöl) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Uzbek: nol — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Uzbek: sifr — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Veps: nolʹ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Vietnamese: không — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Volapük: ser — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Volapük: nosanum — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Võro: nulĺ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Votic: nolʹ — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Welsh: sero — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Wolof: tus — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Yiddish: נול (nul) — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Yoruba: òdo — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Yup'ik: caunateng — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Zazaki: çıniyo — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Zhuang: lingz — cardinal number before 1, denoting nothing
  • Bulgarian: нулирам (nuliram) — to set to zero
  • Catalan: posar a zero — to set to zero
  • Cebuano: i-sero — to set to zero
  • Cebuano: serohi — to set to zero
  • Czech: vynulovat — to set to zero
  • Danish: nulstille — to set to zero
  • Dutch: op nul zetten — to set to zero
  • Estonian: nullima — to set to zero
  • Finnish: nollata — to set to zero
  • French: zéroter — to set to zero
  • French: mettre à zéro — to set to zero
  • German: nullen — to set to zero
  • German: auf Null stellen — to set to zero
  • Greek: μηδενίζω (midenízo) — to set to zero
  • Hebrew: איפס (ipés) — to set to zero
  • Hungarian: nulláz — to set to zero
  • Hungarian: lenulláz — to set to zero
  • Icelandic: núllstilla — to set to zero
  • Interlingua: reducer a zero — to set to zero
  • Interlingua: adjustar a zero — to set to zero
  • Italian: azzerare — to set to zero
  • Northern Kurdish: sifir kirin — to set to zero
  • Latvian: iestādīt uz nulli — to set to zero
  • Latvian: nullēt — to set to zero
  • Polish: wyzerować — to set to zero
  • Polish: zerować — to set to zero
  • Portuguese: zerar — to set to zero
  • Romanian: a reduce la zero — to set to zero
  • Russian: настра́ивать на нуль (nastráivatʹ na nulʹ) — to set to zero
  • Spanish: poner a cero — to set to zero
  • Swahili: ziro — to set to zero
  • Swedish: nolla — to set to zero
  • Swedish: nollställa — to set to zero
  • Finnish: nollata — computing: to set values to zero
  • Cebuano: i-sero — to cause or set some value or amount to be zero
  • Finnish: nollata — to cause or set some value or amount to be zero
  • Finnish: tasapainottaa — to cause or set some value or amount to be zero
  • Italian: azzerare — to cause or set some value or amount to be zero
  • Italian: finire — to cause or set some value or amount to be zero
  • Russian: обнулить (obnulitʹ) — to cause or set some value or amount to be zero