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zero
Part of speech: NounA cipher; nothing; neutral point on a scale, of temperature, etc., from which reckoning begins: zero hour, the hour fixed for beginning a military engagement, as an advance, or attack.
Usage examples "zero":- The temperature got down below zero that night and many rabbits froze to death and were buried under the snow. - "The-Life-of-Me-an-autobiography", Johnson, Clarence Edgar.
- It was well he did know; for there was neither strain of music nor ray of light to guide him now; and his heart sank to zero as he thought he might raise the stone and discover nothing. - "The Midnight Queen", May Agnes Fleming.
- When the mercury is at twenty below zero it would mean that just the same. - "Letters from China and Japan", John Dewey Alice Chipman Dewey.