zeronumber
uk/ˈzɪə.rəʊ/us/ˈzɪr.oʊ/plural zerosA2 [ C or U ] (the number) 0; nothing:
Five, four, three, two, one, zero.
The number one million is written with a one and six zeros.
Heavy rain has reduced visibility almost to zero (= its lowest point).
B1 [ U ] on a set of numbers for comparing temperature in degrees Celsius, the level of temperature at which water freezes:
The temperature is expected to drop to ten degrees below zero tonight.
More examples
- Temperatures rarely rise above zero in winter.
- Plus 8 is eight more than zero.
- The temperature has fallen below zero.
- The temperature could fall below zero overnight.
- I missed out a zero when dialling her number.
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Numbers: cardinal, including nought & zero
- eighty
- eleven
- fifty
- five
- fourteen
- giga-
- googol
- hundred
- milliard
- million
- O, o
- oh
- seventy
- six
- ten
- thirty
- thousand
- trillion
- twelve
- uni
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Cold
Measurements of temperature
zeroadjective
uk/ˈzɪə.rəʊ/us/ˈzɪr.oʊ/not any or no:
zero growth/inflation
informal He said that his chances of getting the job were zero (= he had no chance).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Something, anything, nothing, and everything
- across-the-board
- anything
- aught
- bazillion
- bugger
- fat
- fresh
- nil
- none
- not a dicky bird idiom
- not a sausage idiom
- nothing
- nowt
- sweet
- sweet fanny adams idiom
- the whole bit idiom
- the whole lot idiom
- what with one thing and another idiom
- whit
- zip
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