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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The digit 0 that begins all telephone numbers in the United Kingdom, which is substituted for the country code in the event of international calls.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Topics: communications, electrical-engineering, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, telecommunications, telephony
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
A prefix which is a null morpheme, used in models of linguistic analysis to represent the lack of a prefix where one might otherwise be expected (for example, as one of several inflections that a stem can take, or the reduction of a historically vocalised prefix to the point that it is inaudible).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistic-morphology, linguistics, morphology, sciences
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Synonyms: null prefix
Antonyms: none provided
History
From zero + prefix.
