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ZERO

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 975 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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
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late into
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English . The
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Spanish form cifra, more closely resembling the
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original Arabic, gave O . Fr. cifre, mod. chiffre, also used in the sense of mono-
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gram, and English " cipher " which is thus a doublet . In physics, the
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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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