ZERO  , the figure 0 in the Arabic notation for See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers, nought, See also:

• CIPHER, or CYPHER (from Arab. sifr, void)

cipher . The Arabic name for the figure was sifr, which meant literally an empty thing . The old Latin writers on See also:

• ARITHMETIC (Gr. apeOµ7run7, sc. TEXVn, the art of counting, from (ipLBµos, number)

arithmetic translated or transliterated the Arabic word as zephyrum; this in Ital. became zefiro, contracted to zero, borrowed by F. zero, whence it came See also:

• LATE

late into See also:

• ENGLISH

English . The See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form cifra, more closely resembling the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original Arabic, gave O . Fr. cifre, mod. chiffre, also used in the sense of mono-See also:

• GRAM

gram, and English " cipher " which is thus a doublet . In physics, the See also:

• TERM

term is applied to a point with which phenomena are quantitatively compared, especially to a point of a graduated See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument between a See also:

• POSITIVE (or PORTABLE) ORGAN

positive and negative or ascending and descending See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale, as in the scales of temperature .