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(verb) adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun); "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards" |
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Synonyms: zero in |
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Related Words: adjust, set |
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(verb) to adjust to zero value, of an instrument or device |
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Related Words: adjust, set |
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(satellite adjective) indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score" |
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Synonyms: 0 |
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(satellite adjective) indicating an initial point or origin |
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(satellite adjective) having no measurable or otherwise determinable value; "the goal is zero population growth" |
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(noun) a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number |
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Synonyms: 0, cipher, cypher, nought |
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Related Words: digit |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, zilch, zip |
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Related Words: bugger all, fuck all, nihil, nil, relative quantity |
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