(~s, or ~es, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Zero is the number 0.
Visibility at the city’s airport came down to ~, bringing air traffic to a standstill.
...a scale ranging from ~ to seven.
= nought
NUM
2.
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 ~...
That night the mercury fell to thirty degrees below ~.
N-UNCOUNT
3.
You can use ~ to say that there is none at all of the thing mentioned.
This new ministry was being created with ~ assets and ~ liabilities.
ADJ