Definitions for zeroes

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zeroes ze·ro

Spelling: [zeer-oh]

IPA: /ˈzɪər oʊ/

Zeroes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in zeroes (eeorsz).

Definitions for zeroes

noun

1. the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
2. the origin of any kind of measurement; line or point from which all divisions of a scale, as a thermometer, are measured in either a positive or a negative direction.
3. a mathematical value intermediate between positive and negative values.
4. naught; nothing.
5. the lowest point or degree.
6. Linguistics. the absence of a linguistic element, as a phoneme or morpheme, in a position in which one previously existed or might by analogy be expected to exist, often represented by the symbol 0̷:
7. Ordnance. a sight setting for both elevation and windage on any particular range causing a projectile to strike the center of the target on a normal day, under favorable light conditions, with no wind blowing.
8. Mathematics. the identity element of a group in which the operation is addition. (of a function, especially of a function of a complex variable) a point at which a given function, usually a function of a complex variable, has the value zero; a root.
9. (initial capital letter) a single-engine Japanese fighter plane used in World War II.

adjective

1. amounting to zero:
2. having no measurable quantity or magnitude; not any:
3. Linguistics. noting a hypothetical morphological element that is posited as existing by analogy with a regular pattern of inflection or derivation in a language, but is not represented by any sequence of phonological elements:
4. Meteorology. (of an atmospheric ceiling) pertaining to or limiting vertical visibility to 50 feet (15.2 meters) or less. of, relating to, or limiting horizontal visibility to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
5. Finance. zero-coupon.
6. being or pertaining to the precise time, as a specific hour or second, when something must or does happen, as the explosion of a nuclear weapon:

Verb phrases

1. zero in, to aim (a rifle, etc.) at the precise center or range of a target.
2. zero in on, to aim directly at (a target). to direct one's attention to; focus on; concentrate on. to converge on; close in on.

verb (used with object)

1. to adjust (an instrument or apparatus) to a zero point or to an arbitrary reading from which all other readings are to be measured.
2. to reduce to zero.
3. Slang. to kill (a congressional bill, appropriation, etc.):

Origin of zeroes

1595-1605; Italian Medieval Latin zephirum Arabic ṣifr cipher

Examples for zeroes

The screenwriting was one last card Brinsley was trying to play after every other trade he tried had turned to zeroes.

Randall Lane, author of The zeroes, on the groundbreaking, bridge-burning film.

(4) Blahous than zeroes in on the role of various changes to the tax code, including the Bush-era tax cuts of 2001 and 2003.

I ask you to compare Plutarch's lives of demigods and heroes with our modern biographies of deminoughts and zeroes.

His book, The zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane, will be published in June.

Especially Steve Schwarzman, the poster child for greed in the decade I call The zeroes.

We took those recommendations and turned them into ones and zeroes.

O for a little one-story thermometer,With nothing but zeroes all ranged in a row!

Murray is a bullet-headed beer-swilling comic who zeroes in on any "unwelcome cousins" in the audience.

But tech geeks, with their superhuman ability to manipulate ones and zeroes, do.