zeroとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French zéro, from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر‎ (ṣifr, “nothing, cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnya, “void, nothingness”).

発音

• (Received 発音, General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈzɪə.ɹəʊ/
• (General American) enPR: zîrʹō('), zēʹrō('), IPA^(key): /ˈzɪɚ(ˌ)oʊ/, /ˈzi(ˌ)ɹoʊ/
• 韻: -ɪəɹəʊ, -iːɹəʊ
• ハイフネーション: zero

数詞

zero

1. The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.

   The conductor waited until the passenger count was zero.

   A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.

使用する際の注意点

• In an adjectival sense, used with the plural of a countable noun or with an uncountable noun:

  I have zero dollars and zero food.

同意語

派生語

派生した語

• → Tokelauan: helo

参考

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

名詞

zero (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 zeros または zeroes)

1. The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.

   In unary and k-adic notation in general, zero is the empty string.

   Write 0.0 to indicate a floating point number rather than the integer zero.

   The zero sign in American Sign Language is considered rude in some cultures.

2. The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.

   One million has six zeroes.

3. (informal, uncountable) Nothing, or none.

   The shipment was lost, so they had zero in stock.

   He knows zero about humour.

   In the end, all of our hard work amounted to zero.

4. The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.
   • 2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68:

     Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.

   The electromagnetic field does not drop all of the way to zero before a reversal.

5. The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.

   The temperature outside is ten degrees below zero.

6. (mathematics) A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.

   The zeroes of a polynomial are its roots by the fundamental theorem of algebra.

   The derivative of a continuous, differentiable function that twice crosses the axis must have a zero.

   The nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function may all lie on the critical line.

8. (mathematics, algebra) The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.

   Since a commutative zero is the inverse of any additive identity, it must be unique when it exists.

   The zero (of a ring または field) has the property that the product of the zero with any element yields the zero.

   The quotient ring over a maximal ideal is a field with a single zero element.

9. (slang) A person of little or no importance.

   They rudely treated him like a zero.

10. (military) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
11. A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm.
12. (finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).

    The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes.

同意語

• (numeric symbol zero): cipher
• (digit zero): slashed zero
• (point of origin on a scale): origin, zero point
• (lowest point): nadir
• (negligible または irrelevant amount): naught, nil, nothing, nought, nowt, null, (informal) bugger all, (informal) fuck all, nada, sod all, sweet FA, sweet Fanny Adams, zilch, zip
• (person of little importance): cipher, nobody, nonentity
• (value of a function’s variables at zero): root
• (identity element of a monoid): additive identity

反意語

• (value of a function's variables at zero): pole

下位語

Holonyms

• (value of a function's variables at zero): kernel

派生語

関連する語

形容詞

zero (not comparable)

1. (informal) no, not any

   She showed zero respect.

   • 2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport‎^[2]:

     You have to salute Gerrard's bravery in accepting the challenge of trying to turn Rangers around given that he has zero experience in senior management. Immortality beckons if he does it.

2. (meteorology) Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
3. (meteorology) Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
4. (linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the surface form.

   The stem of "kobieta" with the zero ending is "kobiet".

同意語

• (くだけた用法: virtually none): no

派生語

• zero growth
• zero tolerance

動詞

zero (三人称単数 現在形 zeroes または zeros, 現在分詞 zeroing, 過去形および過去分詞形 zeroed)

1. (transitive) To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate instrument scale to valid zero.

   Zero the fluorometer with the same solvent used in extraction.

   George parked in space 34, zeroed the trip meter, closed and locked his car, then went back to the guard shack.

2. (transitive, computing) To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero.

   Results were inconsistent because an array wasn’t zeroed during initialization.

3. (transitive) To cause or set some value or amount to be zero.

   They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter.

   The bill was over $400, but the server zeroed it out as a gesture of gratitude.

4. (transitive) To eliminate; to delete; to overwrite with zeros.
   • 2001, Mark Pesce, “True Magic”, in James Frenkel, editor, True Names by Vernor Vinge and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier:

     They discovered the object code for the simulator that was DON, and zeroed it. DON — or his creator — was clever and had planted many copies,

   • 2004, Anna Maxted, Being Committed, page 358:

     If I zeroed Jack, I'd get by So I'd erased him, pretended the last few months had never happened.

5. (intransitive) To disappear
   • 1997, Tom Clancy, Executive Orders, page 340:

     Traffic on the encrypted channels used by senior Iraqi generals had peaked and zeroed, then peaked again, and zeroed again.

同意語

• (to set to zero): tare
• (to cause to be zero): zero out

派生語

• zero in
• zero in on
• zero out

Latin

名詞

zerō

1. dative singular of zerum
2. ablative singular of zerum