zero

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♦♦♦ zero /z'ɪəroʊ/ (zerosor zeroes zeroing zeroed)
1 [NUM]
Zero is the number 0.
Visibility at the city's airport came down to zero, bringing air traffic to a standstill.
...a scale ranging from zero to seven.
= nought
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
Zero is a temperature of 0°. It is freezing point on the Centigrade and Celsius scales, and 32° below freezing point on the Fahrenheit scale.
It's a sunny late winter day, just a few degrees above zero...
That night the mercury fell to thirty degrees below zero.
3 [ADJ]
You can use zero to say that there is none at all of the thing mentioned.
This new ministry was being created with zero assets and zero liabilities.ab|so|lute zero
[N-UNCOUNT]
Absolute zero is a theoretical temperature that is thought to be the lowest possible temperature.zero tol|er|ance
[N-UNCOUNT] oft N prep
If a government or organization has a policy of zero tolerance of a particular type of behaviour or activity, they will not tolerate it at all.
They have a policy of zero tolerance for sexual harassment.

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