零 — meaning in English
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English meaning
Senses
零 is used for these senses in English:
- aught The digit zero.
- nil (sports) A score of zero
- nought (UK, Irish, Commonwealth) Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.
- zero (linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.
- zero The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
- zero The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.
- zilch (uncountable, informal) Nothing, zero.
aught — full definition
- pron Anything at all (an old-fashioned or literary word).
- noun Zero; the digit 0 (an old-fashioned way of naming it, as in "nineteen aught six").
nil — full definition
- noun Nothing at all; zero.
- noun A score of zero, especially in British sporting results.
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