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Encyclopedia Britannica



ZERO

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 975 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM
ZERO , the figure 0 in the Arabic notation for numbers, nought,
cipher
 . The Arabic name for the figure was sifr, which meant literally an empty thing. The old Latin writers on
arithmetic
  translated or transliterated the Arabic word as zephyrum; this in Ital. became zefiro, contracted to zero, borrowed by F. zero, whence it came
late
  into
English
 . The Spanish form cifra, more closely resembling the
original
  Arabic, gave O. Fr. cifre, mod. chiffre, also used in the sense of mono-
gram
 , and
English
  "
cipher
  " which is thus a doublet. In physics, the
term
  is applied to a point with which phenomena are quantitatively compared, especially to a point of a graduated
instrument
  between a positive and negative or ascending and descending
scale
 , as in the scales of temperature.


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