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The location of the center of a burst of a nuclear weapon at the instant of detonation. The zero point may be in the air, or on or beneath the surface of land or water, depending upon the type of burst, and it is thus to be distinguished from ground zero.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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Ground zero.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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A children's game involving jumping over a chain of linked elastic bands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Singapore, uncountable
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Synonyms: yeh yeh
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the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: zero
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Broader terms: numerical quantity
From early restandardization, possibly under influence of established US military terms such as zero hour, of the prior term point zero, which was coined during the Trinity Project, as point + zero, with zero being the code name for the Trinity test location. The original sense was that of ground zero and referred to only latitude and longitude, without regard to altitude, until the latter term's coinage in 1946.
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