Zero (Fr. zéro; Ital. zifro; Arab. sifr, 'cipher'), the number 0 (see NUMERALS), and the point from which the reckoning begins on Scales (q.v.) such as those of the barometer, &c.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 797
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