zeroed
- 1Simple past and past participle of zero.
The marksman zeroed his rifle at a hundred yards before the match.
Once the gauge was zeroed, the technician began recording the pressure.
Note
One spelling carries all three meanings of the verb into the past. A counter or balance is zeroed when it is set to nothing. A rifle or gauge is zeroed when it is adjusted until its error is acceptably small. Something can also be zeroed in the sense of made to disappear. As a participle it often works like an adjective (a zeroed scale). Compare zeroized, a related form.
zeroed is a form of zero
zero, verb: To set an amount, instrument or reading to zero, or to adjust a gun sight so that shots land where it aims at a set distance. Full entry
- Spelling
- zero → zeroed: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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