zeros
- 1Plural of zero.
The accountant accidentally added two more zeros to the final figure.
Binary code is built entirely from ones and zeros.
Note
The regular -s plural. It belongs only to the countable senses of zero: digits in a figure, marks on a scale, or the values where a function equals zero, as when mathematicians speak of a function's zeros. The informal 'nothing' sense is uncountable and has no plural, so one says 'zero interest,' never 'zeros of interest.' The spelling zeroes also occurs.
- 2The decade made up of the years ending in 00 through 09 within a century, such as the 2000s; also called the noughties.
Many of the tech companies that dominate today were founded in the zeros.
Fashion from the zeros is making a comeback among teenagers.
Note
A decade name built like the nineties or the sixties. Like them, it exists only in the plural and almost always takes the: 'in the zeros,' 'fashion from the zeros.' It can name the first ten years of any century, the 1900s as readily as the 2000s, so context has to say which. Without the article and a time frame, readers will hear the ordinary plural of zero instead.
zeros is a form of zero
zero, noun: Nothing at all; no amount, or the value of a quantity that stands for none. Full entry
- Spelling
- zero → zeros: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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