Zero vs Infinite - What's the difference?
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(cardinal) The cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as .
The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
The digit in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
(informal, uncountable) Nothing, or none.
The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.
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(mathematics) A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.
(senseid) (mathematics, algebra) The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.
(slang) A person of little or no importance.
(military) A , a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm.
(finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).
(informal, used with noun) none
(meteorology) Of a cloud ceiling, limiting vision to 50 feet (15 meters) or less.
(meteorology) Of horizontal visibility, limited to 165 feet (50.3 meters) or less.
(linguistics) Present at an abstract level, but not realized in the data.
To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate instrument scale to valid zero.
(computing) To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero.
To cause or set some value or amount to be zero.
To eliminate; to delete; to overwrite with zeros.
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To disappear
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Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense.
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Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable.
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With plural noun: infinitely many.
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(mathematics) Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless.
(set theory, of a set) Having infinitely many elements.
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(grammar) Not limited by person or number.
(music) Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings.
Infinitely many.
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As nouns the difference between zero and infinite
is that zero is zero while infinite is infinity, endlessness.As a numeral zero
is zero.zero
English
(wikipedia zero)Numeral
(head)- The conductor waited until the passenger count was zero .
- A cheque for zero''' dollars and '''zero''' cents crashed the computers on division by '''zero .
Usage notes
* In an adjectival sense, used with the plural of a countable noun: *: I have zero''' dollars and '''zero food.Synonyms
* * o * cipher * (informal) goose egg * naught * nil * no * nullDerived terms
* division by zero * zero method * zeroth, zeroethSee also
*Noun
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- Since a commutative zero is the inverse of any additive identity, it must be unique when it exists.
- The zero''' (of a ring or 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.
- They rudely treated him like a zero .
- The takeovers were financed by issuing zeroes .
Synonyms
* (numeric symbol zero) cipher * (digit zero) slashed zero * (point of origin on a scale) origin, zero point * (lowest point) nadir * (negligible or 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 * root * (identity element of a monoid) additive identityDerived terms
* absolute zero * aleph-zero * decimal without a zero * go from zero to hero * ground zero * negative zero * non-zero * positive zero * size zero * sub-zero * zero air * zero-based budget * zero coupon bond * zero-day * zero deflection * zero-dimensional * zero-emission vehicle * zero-grade * zero hour * zero hundred * zero-knowledge * zero-knowledge proof * zero-length launching * zero one infinity rule * zero-point energy * zero-rated * zero-sum * zero-sum game * zero vector * zero gravityAdjective
(-)- She showed zero respect.
- The stem of "kobieta" with the zero ending is "kobiet".
Synonyms
* noDerived terms
* zero toleranceVerb
(es)- Zero the fluorometer with the same solvent used in extraction.
- Results were inconsistent because an array wasn’t zeroed during initialization.
- They tried to zero the budget by the end of the quarter.
- 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,
- If I zeroed Jack, I'd get by So I'd erased him, pretended the last few months had never happened.
- Traffic on the encrypted channels used by senior Iraqi generals had peaked and zeroed', then peaked again, and ' zeroed again.
Synonyms
* (to set to zero) tare * (to cause to be zero) zero outDerived terms
* zero in * zero in on * zero outinfinite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The number is so infinite , that verily it would be an easier matter for me to reckon up those that have feared the same.
- Whatever is finite, as finite, will admit of no comparative relation with infinity; for whatever is less than infinite is still infinitely distant from infinity; and lower than infinite distance the lowest or least cannot sink.
- infinite riches in a little room
- which infinite calamity shall cause to human life
- Great is our Lord, and of great power; his understanding is infinite .
- Huxley's theory says that if you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece – a play by Shakespeare, a Platonic dialogue, or an economic treatise by Adam Smith.
- For any infinite set, there is a 1-1 correspondence between it and at least one of its proper subsets. For example, there is a 1-1 correspondence between the set of natural numbers and the set of squares of natural numbers, which is a proper subset of the set of natural numbers.