zero
noun
the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
zeros
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pluralof zero.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Now Wall Street zeros in on rate hike in September.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
If you’re not, you’ve got to use money, which is hard to get, whereas you get shares by typing zeros into a spreadsheet.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
In conventional computing, information is represented by zeros and ones.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2026
And these worlds aren’t even real, just ones and zeros merged to form a network of communication that sometimes feels like incoherent gibberish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
The inventors of calculus, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, created the most powerful mathematical method ever by dividing by zero and adding an infinite number of zeros together.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
