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Adjective zero has 4 senses
- zero, 0 - indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score"
Antonym: ordinal (indirect, via cardinal)
- zero - indicating an initial point or origin
Antonym: cardinal (indirect, via ordinal)
- zero - of or relating to the null set (a set with no members)
- zero - having no measurable or otherwise determinable value; "the goal is zero population growth"
Antonym: all (indirect, via some, no)
Antonym: some (indirect, via no, all)
Noun zero has 3 senses
- nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
--1 is a kind of relative quantity
--1 has particulars:
- zero, 0, nought, cipher, cypher - a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
--2 is a kind of digit, figure
- zero, zero point - the quantity that registers a reading of zero on a scale
--3 is a kind of numerical quantity
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